Systematic hedge fund thrives on market timing - Heeten Doshi
Heeten Doshi B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Many investors, academics, and financial professionals believe market timing is impossible. Other investors, especially active traders, believe strongly in it. Market timing is the act of moving investment money in or out of a financial market or switching funds between asset classes based on predictive methods. Market timing is most popular at the bottom of bear markets and least popular at the late stages of a bull market. Buy-and-hold behaviour is the reverse. Currently buy-and-hold seems to be more popular than it has been in at least a decade, whi...