Is Market Timing Really as Horrible as Everyone Says? [The Motley Fool]
Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (VGSH)
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Nobody likes to see losses in their investment portfolios. It's the dream of avoiding those losses that leads so many investors to try to time the market.Like many of my colleagues at The Motley Fool, I'm a big proponent of long-term investing. Early on in my investing career, I learned the hard way that trying to time the market can often leave you locking in losses and missing out on big gains.Yet some of the ways that peopleargue against market timingMarket timing is definitely bad -- if you're a terrible market timerOne key view of long-term investing is that because the stock market goes up over time, not being invested in stocks is on average a losing proposition. The more time you're fully invested, the greater the odds that you'll participate fully in the market's long-term gains. That's valid as a broad idea.Market timers see downturns as a ticking time bomb -- but sometimes they end up holding the bag. Image source: Getty Images.Yet in trying to make this point, many propone
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