Advertisement
UK markets open in 31 minutes
  • NIKKEI 225

    37,628.48
    -831.60 (-2.16%)
     
  • HANG SENG

    17,216.44
    +15.17 (+0.09%)
     
  • CRUDE OIL

    82.98
    +0.17 (+0.21%)
     
  • GOLD FUTURES

    2,330.20
    -8.20 (-0.35%)
     
  • DOW

    38,460.92
    -42.77 (-0.11%)
     
  • Bitcoin GBP

    51,481.50
    -1,871.79 (-3.51%)
     
  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,391.30
    +8.73 (+0.63%)
     
  • NASDAQ Composite

    15,712.75
    +16.11 (+0.10%)
     
  • UK FTSE All Share

    4,374.06
    -4.69 (-0.11%)
     

3 Reasons Why Trying to Time the Market Is a 'Fool's Errand'

3 Reasons Why Trying to Time the Market Is a 'Fool's Errand'

Plenty of research has gone into how well market timing might work. When the brokerage firm Charles Schwab studied market timing, it found that the cost of waiting for the "perfect moment" to invest costs investors more than they would have earned -- even if their timing had been perfect. Very few of us can predict short-term market movements accurately enough to beat the buy-and-hold strategy.