Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

market timing

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables: mar-ket -tim-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The perennial advice is that time in the market beats timing the market because market timing is a fool's game."

Usage

Inflected Forms

market timings (plural)

Antonyms

buy and hold

Questions

What does market timing mean?: 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.

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