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Daily Archives: January 29, 2010

You Can Win by Not Losing (i.e., the Loss Curve)

January 29, 2010
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All of this brings me back to market timing, something every investor was focused on a year ago.  Good market timing helped Cabot Market Letter avoid most of the bear market.  But now, after the market has motored higher for months, few are concerned with market timing, and as I mentioned yesterday, that’s a mistake. The key to good market timing is to keep it simple.  There is no perfect system, of course, but we think getting too technical and following too many indicators will lead you off course.  That’s doubly true if those indicators focus on what we...

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