market timing

market timing definition - finance
A strategy used by some investors when deciding whether to buy or sell securities. Investors look at current trends such as interest rates, market volatility, and expectations for an industry and then predict how stock prices will respond.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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