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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thecalculator who wrote (17447)	6/10/2001 1:00:07 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 30051

Instead, as an investor, valuation determines what to buy...technical analysis determines when to buy. If your emphasis is heavily on fundamentals, the time required to get entries right more than 50% of the time is really not worth it in the long run. If you buy a stock at 11 with a value target of 20, it's mostly academic whether you could have bought at 10 or 12. You won't sell a dip and rebuy if you think the fundies are still solid anyway - that's a trader's game. Chances are, your timing decisions won't produce significant improvement, because it is not your primary focus. Some people have a knack for timing and TA and others do fundies. It's very rare to find both in one trader or investor.