This chart perfectly sums up why so many people try (and usually fail) to time the market - you can make a lot of money doing it ($1 invested in 1966 would be worth almost $2,000 today).

Foolishly, they cite, "It's time in the markets, not timing the markets." Sadly, these folks do not know that the wildly celebrated catchphrase emanated from Wall Street marketers.

We spoke with Peak Retirement Planning CEO Joe F. Schmitz Jr. about timing the market and why time in the market, for most, results in better success.

Investors Make Money By Being In The Market, Not By Timing The Market By Columbia Management Perspectives 2014-11-17T13:21:00Z ...

In the interest of fairness, an argument could be made about the differences in value by missing some of the S&P 500's worst days, but that goes back to the difficulty of timing the market. You ...

Time, not timing, is the key to portfolio growth. Consider an example I use in teaching classes on the subject. Assume an investment of $10,000 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average between Jan. 1 ...

The old adage says that "time in the market" is more important than "timing the market." Anyone who needed a reminder of that truth got it in spades during the first quarter of 2016. Who would ...