market timing

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.

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

Opposite
buy and hold
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Meanings

nounmarket timing (countable and uncountable, plural market timings)

plural market timings

  1. countableuncountablebusinessThe 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.

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

    Antonyms: buy and hold

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe 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.

Opposite
buy and hold
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APA

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MLA

“market timing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/market%20timing. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “market timing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/market%20timing.

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