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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock and Bond Market-Timing: Can it be Done? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (2787)	8/14/2014 4:11:29 AM
From: ETF1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3605

What is also illuminating is look at the "individual issues" with SPY in double digits and it is listed as a "hold" not a "BUY hands over fist" ... 100 points later... he's still looking for weakness to buy. Also, in that issue, I seem to recall the overall market was not a buy either even though it was "the buying opportunity of the century" according to some on CNBC. Kirk, Which specific Marketimer issue (month and year) are you referring to? Here's what is in the May 5, 2009 Marketimer, with the S&P 500 at 872.81 and SPY listed at 87.0 on 5/1/2009 "We continue to rate the stock market attractive for purchase during periods of weakness" If I'm a new subscriber to Marketimer at this time in 2009, I'm not going to invest anything in the stock market. I'm going to wait for "weakness", however that is defined. And since this is May 5, 2009, and the market recently dropped by well more than 50% and hit its low less than 2 months ago it's not likely that we will have a lot of weakness. So there's a good chance I will remain out of the market. Since I'm a new subscriber, I'm not really familiar with all these strange terms like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, the S&P 500, etc. And I don't know how to find out if and when the stock market has anything that Bob Brinker is calling "weakness." This is all way beyond me. I thought that by purchasing a subscription to Marketimer, I would have simple instructions as to how to invest. But new subscribers find out this in not the case. New subscribers are faced with a bewildering array of economic and stock market terms and information, and can't make heads or tails of it. Does Bob Brinker really believe that people subscribe to Marketimer to learn about the Federal Reserve, the FOMC, and the M1, M2 and M3 money supply? Does anybody pony up $185 for an annual subscription to Marketimer because they want to learn about GDP, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, price to earnings ratios, and the difference between operating earnings and as reported earnings? I've had several friends who subscribed to Marketimer and told me they didn't understand all these things and weren't even interested in all these things. Marketimer subscribers just want to know how to invest their money. That's it. They don't know that much about investing and are willing to pay $185/year for professional advice from Bob Brinker, so they can invest wisely and do well. What they want most out of Marketimer is the practical advice of exactly what to invest in, how to make the investments, and when to make the investments. Instead, they get nebulous advice that they can't act on: "Buy on Weakness" Just what does that mean, anyway? This is the first week of May 2009, and with the S&P 500 at 872.81, it's a great time to go all in and buy the stock market in a lump sum. But that is not the timing advice Bob Brinker gave in Marketimer.