All About Market Timing: The Easy Way to Get Started by Les Masonson

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  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Pub. Date: September 2003
  • ISBN-13: 9780071413312
  • Sales Rank: 322,021
  • 288pp
  • Series: All about Ser.
  • Edition Number: 1
 
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Synopsis

Everything You Need to Know to Make Money In Bull and Bear Markets

Market experts regularly sing the praises of the revered buy-and-hold strategy, a winning approach in bull markets. But where are those experts when regularly occurring bear markets maul investors' portfolios? In fact, where were you during the most recent collapse, in 2000-2002, when investors who blindly followed the buy-and-hold method were forced to stand-and-watch as years of investment profits were rapidly erased?

Probably holding and praying. So much for the experts.

All About Market Timing provides easy-to-implement market-timing strategies designed to help you ride bull markets while sidestepping bear markets. Built around a handful of mechanical, time-tested strategies, this long-overdue book flies in the face of the experts and their "advice" to show you how relatively easy it can be to keep your portfolio growing as other investors get crushed in every bear stampede.

The number-one key to investing is to preserve your capital. Let All About Market Timing show you how to do just that, by turning your back on the always risky—and oftentimes lethal—buy-and-hold approach.

Read All About Market Timing to learn more about:

  • Five profitable timing strategies
  • Increased portfolio returns using leveraged funds
  • Why ETFs are better than stocks
  • Market-timing newsletters and advisors
  • Reliable timing software
  • And much more

Leslie N. Masonson is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm. A popular speaker, Masonson has authored four books, including Day Trading on the Edge.

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Biography

Les Masonson is president of Cash Management Resources, a cash/treasury management consulting firm, and the author of numerous books, including Day Trading on the Edge.

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September 03, 2006: Of all the books I have read on investing, this book makes it clear that predicting the market doesn't work, but trend timing the market does work. I use one of the services mentioned in this book and know for a fact timing works.

All About Market Timing: The Easy Way to Get Startedby Anonymous

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April 22, 2004: The preponderance of research for the past 100 years or so has demonstrated convincingly that stock markets are pretty efficient and that stock prices move randomly, or almost randomly. That is a strong argument against trying to time the market. Author Leslie N. Masonson disagrees, contending that if you use a few simple techniques to time the market, you can avoid losses and wind up with a more profitable portfolio than if you simply bought a representative selection of stocks and held them, as most financial advisors now recommend. He could have presented more evidence to support his opinion, but he is honest enough to contrast his point of view with the many arguments against attempting to time the market. He acknowledges that timing requires certain staunch character traits that are far from universally present in the investing populace. That is to his credit. Also to his credit, according to us, is the fact that he usefully defines and discusses a number of trading techniques and information sources that even non-investors should know about and that investors should understand.