To calculate the 300 Index, plot measurements consisting of basal area, mean top height and stocking at a known age, along with stand history information (initial stocking, timing and extent of thinnings, and timing and height of prunings) are required.
Some companies have already started shifting their stock award timing to the end of the year.
I MUST confess that I was skeptical two decades ago, when I started monitoring a stock market timing model that looked too good to be true.
Little wonder, then, that the average mutual fund investor would be far better off if he never engaged in stock market timing.
The charges against the two executives and Comverse's former chief executive are among the most wide-ranging from more than 130 inquiries into manipulations of stock option timing.
After all, according to Ibbotson Associates, asset allocation accounts for 90% of the variability in fund returns, with stock selection, timing and other factors contributing the rest.
Yet after delving into the issue, the Stanford graduate is convinced he can do more to build his wealth by managing taxes and fees than by picking an occasional hot stock or timing the market.
Nine days later, on October 29th, Reuters reported that the scope of the options-backdating scandal was far wider than was previously known: "The stock options timing scandal, which has already implicated at least 140 companies, could include hundreds more, according to a new analysis that found lax enforcement of corporate governance reforms that should have prevented the practice...
But -- tongue firmly wedged in cheek -- the writer shares his expertise in picking stocks and timing the market, as well as his thoughts on good nutrition for day traders.
–Regardless of pundits who preach that picking specific stocks or timing the market is the key to financial success, history and research have proved these methods to be less than reliable.
