…the TrimTabs numbers show, instead, that over the past decade it was actually quite easy to time the market. All you had to do was buy when the public was selling, and sell when the public was buying. … Human beings are hard-wired to run with the herd. … And that's how they act on the stock market as well. But when it comes to investing, it's a bad idea. Your feelings are a bad guide. And there is no safety in numbers.
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All you had to do was look at the latest numbers from the Investment Company Institute, showing whether the public was putting money into their stock-market funds or taking it out. And then do the opposite.
Take a few minutes and read this WSJ article posted on yahoo.com today, randy
You'll learn something...
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-bud...d=bb-budgeting