The Best Article on Market Timing Ever

July 7, 2002

Well, the best I have ever seen anyway. It explains much of the psychology behind the reluctance of people to time the market, and how the media and others work to hurt the investor. It impressed me enough to get me to subscribe to the newsletter.  I wish I had written that.

Check out the main site, and then also look at this, which is dated July 5, 2002. I think that the summer rally he talks about may have just begun. Time will tell.

Well, after the fund timing and trading scandals, Sy now (April 9, 2004) tells us what is obvious:  nothing has really changed, and the fund companies are using this to their advantage.

Investigators, primarily Eliot Spitzer, NY State Attorney, have been uncovering scams and frauds in the $7 trillion mutual fund industry for six months now. The result so far is that mutual funds themselves have created a few new window-dressing internal rules to placate investors. More obviously, they have taken advantage of the situation to change their rules to the further detriment of their customers, by instituting fees of as much as 2% for investors who don’t hold onto their funds for at least three months, and in some cases now lock investors in for six months. And they’re lobbying to have any new regulations require all funds to do likewise, even those which are designed and offered to investors for more frequent trading, and don’t want such restrictions on their customers.

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