Market Timing For Better Investment Performance

If you are a beginner and an amateur in the world of mutual fund trading

, it is advised for you to start with small amounts of money.

But what escapes media attention and subsequently ours are the stories where people lose most of their life's savings by going for the kill in the stock market. We love success stories and so we choose to close our eyes and turn a blind eye to the not-so-successful ones. Making money in the stock market can be relatively easy if you have perseverance, enthusiasm and more importantly the aptitude and the knack to predict the volatile stock market.

Most market timers work on the policy of buying when the stock is low and selling when the stock is on its way up. Many market timers look to make a number of small profits by changing their positions every few minutes than waiting for longer periods in the hope of making a profit. However, there are market timers who operate on longer timeline but there is more risk involved here as the insiders feel that the stock market cannot really be predicted over a longer period of time.

Beginning investors are often misled into believing that there is no such thing as timing the stock market. This fallacy has been passed down on Wall Street to keep you fully invested at all times. All this does is diminish your returns. The fact is that it is possible to time your stock market investments so that at least you are in the market when it's overall trend is going up and you get out when the market is going down.

By studying the market indexes and learning the signals of distribution days and follow through days, you can learn to time the stock market. Once you learn this essential skill, you have more of an opportunity to pick winning mutual funds and are less likely to be buying the funds when the market is working against you.

To trade mutual funds and stocks successfully, you must first understand the stock market stages that individual stocks or mutual funds and what the overall market go through. These cycles tell you if you should be long, short or in cash. Once you are able to identify what stage it is in, you can then trade accordingly to those characteristics. After a while you won't even have to think about whether you should be long or short. You will know, without question, exactly what you should be doing NOW. You will either be focusing on long positions, short positions, or you will stay safely in cash - just by glancing at a chart!

by: Arthur McCain

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