market timing
The practice of making a decision of buying or selling of financial assets by…The practice of making a decision of buying or selling of financial assets (often stocks) by attempting to predict when future market price movements will occur.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The practice of making a decision of buying or selling of financial assets (often stocks) by attempting to predict when future market price movements will occur.
The perennial advice is that time in the market beats timing the market because market timing is a fool's game.
Forms
plural: market timings| Singular | market timing |
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Antonyms
1 antonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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