The appeal of market timing is obvious. Who wouldn’t want to get in and out of the market at the best time every time? We’ve talked a lot about market timing in the past – timing risk premiums, trying to time the markets on a daily basis, and the impor…
Technical analysis is always fun to pull apart. This article quotes several analysts predicting a potential 3 to 5 percent drop over a short, but unspecified, term – depending on how some of their indicators move. One of the great things about technical analysis is that it’s usually unverifiable. If we do see a drop (of really any magnitude) they get to claim success and talk about how brilliant they are. If the markets keep going up, then the conditions just weren’t right. Plus, how many people are really going to complain about the markets going up? But let’s take them at their word. I’m sure the folks this article quotes truly believe in what they are saying. So let’s do a quick and dirty analysis to see how common short term moves of this magnitude are. To keep things simple, let’s just look at the daily returns of the S&P 500 Index from 1/4/50 – 8/10/17. Over this period, the average daily move (the absolute value of the daily return) was 0.65 percent and the standard deviation of the daily moves was 0.71 percent. So a week of average daily movement puts us pretty close to the top range […]
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