IS THERE A BETTER APPROACH THAN BUY AND HOLD?

  Is there a smarter way to handle your investments, to protect your
profits, and to steer clear of bear markets before they decimate
your portfolio? Yes. The approach is called market timing, and it
works, no matter what you’ve heard to the contrary. This book
contains compelling data on successful market-timing approaches
that beat the market indexes over decades. The strategies are simple
so that you can use them yourself with little work. And for
those of you who prefer to have a market timer do the work
for you, you’ll be interested in the information provided on topperforming
market-timing newsletters and market-timing advisors.
After reading this book you will understand both sides of the
buy-and-hold myth and why market timing is a more sensible, riskaverse,
and unemotional approach to investing in the stock market.
I do not recommend that investors buy individual stocks, ever!
Stocks are simply too risky for the average investor. With the
accounting scandals, SEC investigations, crooked corporate financial
officers, managed earnings, and earnings targets missed by
only a penny, why should you take a chance on picking the wrong
stock or the right stock at the wrong time and taking a big hit? It is  much more prudent, and far less risky, to invest in appropriate
index funds, sector funds, or exchange-traded funds.
My objective in writing All About Market Timing is fourfold.
First, I want to provide you with the rationale and facts indicating
why market timing is a superior investment strategy compared to
the ever-popular buy-and-hold strategy. Second, I want to provide
you with profitable market-timing strategies that are simple to
understand and easy to implement. Third, I want to help you avoid
future bear markets and protect your principal. And last, I want to
help you to maximize the returns that are possible to realize on
your investment assets, both in good times and in bad