Monthly Archives: January 2009

I hear investors and would be investors talk all the time about timing the market. Now relatively few of them actually say "timing the market" (because most people know that it's very challenging to do) but their description of what they're trying to do is just that. They talk about waiting for the bottom so they can buy at the lowest price possible or they talk about waiting a little longer to get it just a little cheaper. These investors usually describe themselves as "looking" for a good deal or the right time to buy but they are really just suffering from analysis paralysis (spending all their time analyzing deals or the market and never taking action). Let me tell you why trying to time the market or the thinking that you should way to buy at the bottom is flawed.