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Originally Posted by Travelhunter123
Timing the markets is difficult at best. If you are “lucky enough” to sell at the height of the market, when do you buy back in? There is a scenario where you sell low and buy high
If you are investing your funds at 1% waiting for the market to bottom; you are losing money to inflation
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One easy way to time the market in a 2 or 4th year election year that works about 80% of the time is to sell stocks in April and use the cash to buy back in about October - because there is a tendency for the market to go up after a national election (no matter who wins). The idea is that the market likes stability and AFTER an election, there are fewer unknowns. Then hold on to those stocks because Dec with Xmas and later January tend to be UP months.
........Some sort of war somewhere in the world could cause this year to have BIG market fluctuations and overpower that "buy after election" strategy.