Sentence examples for a market timer from inspiring English sources
"You can't be a market timer".
"Any value investor is a market timer," she declares.
If market moves in America suggest a sunny outlook for the next day in Japan, a market timer, usually a professional trader, can buy the mutual fund at the fixed price, reflecting stale Tokyo prices, and then sell the fund's shares back to its manager the next day at a profit.This is not illegal.
Whatever the legal status of a market timer's activities, he stands to make a lot of money from other investors in a fund, each of whom loses only a little bit.
But being good as a market timer means more than sidestepping a crash.
If you're going to be a market-timer in a down market (and, for the record, I don't recommend that path to anyone in any kind of market), the key isn't knowing that the market will keep trending downward or upward; it's knowing, with a very, very small margin of error, when the upturn is going to come.
The answer is that he may be a lousy market timer but he is a heck of a stock picker.
But say an investor was a perfect market timer over that period -- putting all of his or her portfolio into technology stocks, but switching to the broader market every month the technology stocks underperformed.
Of course, you really kick yourself if you aren't such a terrific market timer and make a moneylosing trade.
