We all know the mantra espoused by the wealth management industry about the need for us poor dumb investors to buy and hold because there is no way we can time the market. Yet these very people are doing just the opposite with your money, desperately trying to get returns in a falling market to help justify their high fees and charges. This is what I call Buy and Hold Hypocrisy.

Unfortunately you have to be a very good trader or a mug trying to time this market. The usual statistics apply. Probably less than 5% of wealth managers are any good at market timing. Most of them make their money picking winners in rising markets. In a falling or sideways market they have to be much more nimble and that can be hard to do with large amounts of money to trade (Silly me - I mean invest). Read the rest of this entry »

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