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Is Market Timing Investing Or Speculating?
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Written by Paul Merriman   
July 07, 2005

One thing I have noticed repeatedly over the years about successful investors is that they have a clear sense of their goals and how they are going to reach those goals. But investors who are confused about what they are doing experience stress, uncertainty and emotional strains that sometimes lead them into decisions that are, at best, unproductive-and often disastrous.

A Former Market-Timer Speaks Out
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Written by Paul Merriman   
July 07, 2005

I think the most interesting part of the investment industry is the psychology involved, and I’m always looking for new ways to communicate about this. Investors who follow market-timing disciplines know how difficult it is to overcome the psychological hurdles. It’s especially challenging to ignore the media's constant advice to pursue short-term results and trends, while the media advocates long-term investing. You can rarely pick up a financial magazine these days without reading cover headlines promising to tell you which mutual funds or stocks you should be buying RIGHT NOW.

What's your investment personality?
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July 07, 2005

A simple test may reveal what kind of investor you are. If you know that, you’ll have a much better chance of resisting Wall Street’s misleading siren songs – and the market’s emotional roller-coaster. You’ll find the test and some analysis in this article.

When all the experts disagree
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July 07, 2005
It was a balmy Saturday evening in late spring, at the end of a three-day investment conference in the Seattle area. I was about to leave the hotel where I had just finished being on a panel with four other newsletter publishers, when one of the attendees came up to me and said: "It’s really confusing to listen to five experts when they all have such different views of the market."

What is Big? What is small?
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Written by Administrator   
July 06, 2005

Sidebar to: In Stock Investing, Size Matters

In the stock market, "large-cap" and "small-cap" are insiders’ shorthand for a simple bit of mathematics that tells the overall value that investors place on various public companies.

Where's the "Total" in the Total Stock Market Fund?
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July 05, 2005

John Bogle, founder and retired chairman at Vanguard Group, has done a great deal for individual investors over the past 30 years.

The Myths And Realities Of Market Timing
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Written by Paul Merriman   
June 29, 2005

Market timing is one of the least understood concepts involved in investing money. It’s time we identify and debunk some of the myths about market timing. These myths seem to take on a life of their own through repetition. But anybody interested in market timing deserves to know the truth, and this seems like the perfect time for a refresher course.

Market Timing: The Rest of the Story
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Written by Richard Buck   
June 29, 2005

Conventional wisdom says trying to time the stock market is a fool’s game. And if you look at market timing very narrowly, defining it as a discipline that nobody really practices, then the conventional wisdom is right.

Four Buy-and-Hold Portfolios
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June 29, 2005

We’ve been managing money for clients since 1983, and the best way we have ever found to build a buy-and-hold portfolio is using no-load asset-class index funds managed by Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA). These funds were created to help investors pinpoint the most productive types of assets, as identified in academic research.

Why you should care how your financial advisor makes money
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June 28, 2005

Perhaps the financial advice you are getting is free. It may be from reading Money, Smart Money or Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. It may be from watching television shows, attending a workshop or talking to someone you know who is experienced at investing. However, if you are led astray by the advice you get without paying, "free" could turn out to be very expensive.

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