http://www.fibtimer.com/index.asp Market timing for active index, sector, ETF and gold fund traders. Over 20 years of profitable market timing. Strategies for SP500, Nasdaq, bonds, sector funds, REITs, gold, small caps, ETFs, stocks. Aggressive as well as conservative strategies. Editor market timing pro Frank Kollar. en-us http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200628_fibtimer_commentary.asp It is not enough to have a successful market timing strategy if that strategy is not traded with discipline. It is also not enough to trade with discipline if you are overly aggressive with those funds allocated to market timing fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 26 Jun 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200621_fibtimer_commentary.asp Prices must either go up, down or sideways. One of these three outcomes will occur. Change is inevitable and has been the one thing that can be counted on in the markets throughout history fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200614_fibtimer_commentary.asp Free markets behave the same as they did 200 hundred years ago. The same as they did 40 years ago. They same as they did in the bull market of the 1990s. They are the same today, and will be the same in the foreseeable future. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 12 Jun 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200607_fibtimer_commentary.asp Trading, just because we are itching to do something, can be dangerous to our financial health. Very dangerous. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200531_fibtimer_commentary.asp How are you handling the current volatility? Are you agonizing over sell offs and feeling great when the market rises? fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200524_fibtimer_commentary.asp perfectionism can be fatal in market timing (and all trading). Ironically, it leads neither to higher performance nor greater happiness. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200517_fibtimer_commentary.asp Market timers using trend following strategies such as those at FibTimer.com have no desire to try and reach, or to force results to meet, a preconceived profit target. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 15 May 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200510_fibtimer_commentary.asp We are all familiar with the stereotype of the compulsive trader. Traders who are compulsively looking for trading thrills, while telling themselves they are doing it to make a profit. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 08 May 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200503_fibtimer_commentary.asp Possibly the most difficult aspect of successful market timing is dealing with our emotions. Like oil and water, money and emotions do NOT mix. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 01 May 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200419_fibtimer_commentary.asp Trend timers believe the markets are smarter than any of us. We make it our business not to try to figure out why the markets are going up or down, or even where they are going to stop. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200419_fibtimer_commentary.asp In the real world, humans are emotional. Emotions rule everything in the markets. The decision you must make, however, is whether you are going to control your emotions in order to trade decisively and profitably, or let your emotions rule you. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200412_fibtimer_commentary.asp All of us have a survival instinct that typically causes us to focus on good news. Bad news is avoided, or at least put on the back burner. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 10 Apr 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200405_fibtimer_commentary.asp It is not the timing strategies that keep timers from being profitable, it is the fears, which we all have at one time or another, that keep us from making the trades. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200329_fibtimer_commentary.asp Winning market timers have learned to control their impulses. They can follow buy and sell market timing signals effortlessly. They show extreme self-control. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200322_fibtimer_commentary.asp The desires that motivate your trading could mean the difference between success and failure. We market time the financial markets to make money, not to satisfy our emotional needs. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200315_fibtimer_commentary.asp All market timers, traders and investors, in every kind of market, feel fear at some level. Turn on the news one day and hear that a steep unexpected sell-off is taking place, and most of us will get a queasy feeling in our stomachs. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 13 Mar 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200308_fibtimer_commentary.asp The common way is to make buy and sell decisions by the seat of one's pants. Rather than following a timing strategy, those new to market timing often make their timing decisions as they go along. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 06 Mar 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200301_fibtimer_commentary.asp Fibonacci ratios and Elliott Waves help us look ahead and be prepared for what the financial markets will do over the coming weeks and months. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200223_fibtimer_commentary.asp we are timing in a freely traded market that is subject to the emotional whims of traders. And when money is involved, those emotions can, at times, be extreme. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200216_fibtimer_commentary.asp Those who use the stock market to grow their assets have two choices. They can either be investors, which means they are buy and hold for the long term. Or they are traders who try to use the ups and downs inherent in free markets to profit. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200209_fibtimer_commentary.asp Of course with so many analysts making predictions on a daily basis, someone will get a prediction right. But doing it consistently is something else again. No one can predict, with any consistency, the future. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200202_fibtimer_commentary.asp The good news is, you don't have to be an aggressive market timer to achieve large profits. Trading sector funds with a solid timing strategy is not only profitable, but drawdowns are usually very small because sector timing strategies are very diversified. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200126_fibtimer_commentary.asp Many traders, market timers, investors have no plan at all. They are like the proverbial Gunslingers of the Old West. A news event causes the market to decline and BANG, they go short. An economic indicator comes in better than expected, the market rises, and POW they go long. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200119_fibtimer_commentary.asp Market timing works, and it works well for people who actually practice it as a discipline. In theory, every investor is capable of following the disciplines of timing. But not everybody has the right emotional makeup to do timing right. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 17 Jan 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200112_fibtimer_commentary.asp It shouldn't matter much, but many new market timers find that their own personal mood fluctuates with the markets, moving from extreme euphoria as the markets soar to new heights to deep despair when the markets plunge to abysmal lows. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/200105_fibtimer_commentary.asp The fact is, all traders, investors, and yes market timers, feel fear at times, at some level. What is important is how we address it. Knowing the definition and reasons for fear can actually help market timers to overcome it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 03 Jan 2020 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191229_fibtimer_commentary.asp No one makes money in the markets without following a trading plan. A strategy designed to profit by using the ups and downs of the markets to determine whether you are in a bullish or bearish position. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191222_fibtimer_commentary.asp Do you have trouble sticking to a timing strategy? Do you hesitate when faced with a buy or sell signal and look for reasons to justify not taking the trade? fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191215_fibtimer_commentary.asp If you had a million dollars, what would you do? You wouldn't have to ever work again. You could just sit on the beach and relax. You could pay all your bills and set your family up to live comfortably forever. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191208_fibtimer_commentary.asp Too many market timers get upset for the wrong reasons. There is no way to control how profits are made. We can only ride the trends, as far as they will go, when they occur. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 06 Dec 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191201_fibtimer_commentary.asp I can ignore the mass media, which raise emotions and thus increase the risk of not executing a trade. It is often the trade that is hardest to take, that winds up being the most profitable. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 29 Nov 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191124_fibtimer_commentary.asp Typically, those new to stock market timing work under the assumption that winning is all that matters. Obviously winning is important, but being profitable is more important. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191117_fibtimer_commentary.asp Many market timers think that the more they trade, the better they will do. But in reality, market timers do not need to trade aggressively to do well. Four critical issues; strategy, discipline, money management and diversification are discussed below. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191110_fibtimer_commentary.asp The fact is, all traders, investors, and yes market timers, feel fear at times, at some level. What is important is how we address it. Knowing the definition, and reasons for fear, can actually help market timers to overcome it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191103_fibtimer_commentary.asp Successful market timers, meaning profitable market timers, have several common beliefs that help them achieve consistent profits. On the flip side of this, those who are unsuccessful also have a set of common beliefs. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 01 Nov 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191027_fibtimer_commentary.asp Most people are extremely risk averse. They enjoy the pleasure of a sure win, even a small one, but try to avoid the pain of losses at all costs. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191020_fibtimer_commentary.asp The term impulsive is often used to describe people who can't wait. They can't delay; they've got to have it now. So they are willing to forgo something better that comes later in order to get something right away. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191013_fibtimer_commentary.asp People differ greatly in terms of their ability to maintain self control and discipline. Those differences are why we write this weekly report; to drive home the fact that without following a timing strategy, most market timersand traders will be doomed to failure. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/191006_fibtimer_commentary.asp Many investors who understand the potential of market timing, pay little attention to the potential of diversification. Many jump right into an aggressive timing strategy with little thought about how they will handle a loss. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 04 Oct 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190929_fibtimer_commentary.asp Market timers following trends generate great returns over time because their buy and sell decisions are based on the one piece of information that counts the most. That information is price. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190922_fibtimer_commentary.asp While market timing is about profiting, it is NOT about fast gains. It is about capitalizing on trends by following a well researched strategy and avoiding huge losses! fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190915_fibtimer_commentary.asp Trading on emotions, news events, market rallies, etc. is basically trading on a WISH. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190908_fibtimer_commentary.asp The more structure you have to follow, the less uncertain and unorganized you will feel. You will know what to do and when to do it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 06 Sep 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190901_fibtimer_commentary.asp Just saying that a trend consists of rising prices, or declining prices is not enough. Every day is different. A trend must be clearly defined in order to be profitably traded. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190825_fibtimer_commentary.asp After several winning trades, the feeling of invincibility supersedes being logical. This will ultimately lead you ignore a successful timing strategy and into trades that you normally would not have entered. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190818_fibtimer_commentary.asp Do you have trouble sticking to a timing strategy? Do you hesitate when faced with a buy or sell signal and look for reasons to justify not taking the trade? fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190811_fibtimer_commentary.asp The current markets are as volatile as any seen since the 2008 bear market chopped more than 50% off the major indexes. We may not have a bear market in our immediate future, but knowing that individual sectors will exit in time to protect us is important. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 09 Aug 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190804_fibtimer_commentary.asp market timing is not gambling. When you trade with a plan you have an edge that you know will win over time, as long as you use discipline and follow it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190728_fibtimer_commentary.asp We may believe irrationally that as market timers we must always be right and each buy and sell outcome must meet our expectations. If those expectations are not met, we believe it's not only unacceptable, but our fault. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190721_fibtimer_commentary.asp The first step to gaining impulse control is to identify the reasons you want to control your impulses... in other words, the downside of abandoning the timing strategy. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190721_fibtimer_commentary.asp The first step to gaining impulse control is to identify the reasons you want to control your impulses... in other words, the downside of abandoning the timing strategy. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190714_fibtimer_commentary.asp We spend a lifetime building up an array of emotional responses to help us cope with uncomfortable feelings, those same, quite normal emotional responses are exactly the opposite of what is needed to succeed in market timing. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 12 Jul 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190707_fibtimer_commentary.asp What's the harm in dreaming of making quick riches? Nothing, as long as you realize that quick riches is just a fantasy. If you don't, you may want to act on it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190630_fibtimer_commentary.asp At Fibtimer we do not forecast the future. We trade trends that are currently in progress. It is not hocus pocus but a carefully defined strategy. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190623_fibtimer_commentary.asp The fact is, no one buys a stock expecting it will be worth less over time. They choose a time to buy it, based on fundamental or technical analysis, and expect that over time it will be worth more. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 21 Jun 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190616_fibtimer_commentary.asp Why do so many traders sell at bottoms, and buy at tops? It is such a well known fact that it is almost funny, except when you are the person at that top or bottom. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190609_fibtimer_commentary.asp The Buy or Sell signal has been issued. All you need to do is call your fund company or broker, or log into your online trading account and click on the Trade button. But right at that moment, all the doubt and second-guessing comes to a head. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190602_fibtimer_commentary.asp As a market timer, the one thing we must always remember is that the markets can, and most definitely will, throw every possible hardball, curve ball, fast ball, knuckle ball, etc. at us. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 31 May 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190526_fibtimer_commentary.asp Most importantly, if you trade trends, you will NEVER miss any bull market, nor be hurt by ANY bear market. Ever! This is an incredibly important advantage. Imagine never missing a bull market and never being hurt during a bear market. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 24 May 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190519_fibtimer_commentary.asp At Fibtimer, we rely on the fact that most investors are convinced they can predict the future. This is where most of our profits come from. Their errors. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 17 May 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190512_fibtimer_commentary.asp Subscribers should use the strategies that suit them best. We have aggressive, active, and conservative timing strategies. Make sure you know what sort of timing strategy you are emotionally able to handle. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 10 May 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190505_fibtimer_commentary.asp Market timers realize that many market moves are the result of psychological factors, such as opinions or emotions of fear and greed. In the short-term, anything can happen, and it is vital to keep this in mind. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 03 May 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190428_fibtimer_commentary.asp Another concern is for new subscribers who trade immediately. Entering a new position before a new bullish or bearish signal has been issued. We understand the urge to jump in and get started, but in reality, mid-signal entries add risk. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190414_fibtimer_commentary.asp A timing strategy removes emotion from the trading equation, and emotions, as we know, are the single most common reason that timers and traders lose. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190407_fibtimer_commentary.asp ...allowing emotions to have any say in your market timing (or any trading) decisions, guarantees that you you will have even more emotions to deal with. The emotions caused by losses. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190331_fibtimer_commentary.asp ...if you carry the emotional baggage of a losing trade around your neck, every decision you make going forward will be affected by it. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190317_fibtimer_commentary.asp Investors had a taste of what buy-and-hold can do to their capital in the 2000-2002 bear market. They lost again in the 2008-2009 bear market. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190310_fibtimer_commentary.asp History shows us the financial markets are usually in trends. You can go back hundreds of years. You can look at stock markets, commodity markets, Dutch tulips, you name it, they are more often in trends, than not in trends. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190303_fibtimer_commentary.asp Following the emotional crowd may take away the pain for a short while, but it is NOT the way to profit. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190224_fibtimer_commentary.asp In business schools, the buy-and-hold strategy is still viewed by the majority as the most viable investing strategy for the financial markets. I often wonder if those who teach such strategies have their own money invested according to their teachings. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190217_fibtimer_commentary.asp We are all familiar with the stereotype of the impulsive trader. Traders who are impulsively looking for trading thrills, while telling themselves they are doing it to make a profit. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190210_fibtimer_commentary.asp Losses are part of the game. There is no way around them. Market timers should focus on the goal of generating successful gains over the long term, not the daily or even weekly ups and downs of the markets. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190203_fibtimer_commentary.asp There is safety and comfort in numbers. In following the crowd. Across the generations, people learned that survival depended on banding together and working as a group. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190127_fibtimer_commentary.asp Many investors who understand the potential of market timing, pay little attention to the potential of diversification. Many jump right into an aggressive timing strategy with little thought about how they will handle a loss. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190120_fibtimer_commentary.asp Markets go up and markets go down. It shouldn't matter much, but many new market timers and traders find that their own personal mood fluctuates with the markets, moving from extreme euphoria as the markets soar to new heights to deep despair when the markets plunge to new lows. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 18 Jan 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190113_fibtimer_commentary.asp Why is it so many investors will stay with a position as it loses, hoping it will bounce back, instead of cutting their losses? And why do those same investors, when they have a winning position, take quick profits instead of letting the trend play out? fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:00 EST http://www.fibtimer.com/subscribers_historical_reports/190106_fibtimer_commentary.asp Anyone who approaches the financial markets with the intention of winning on every trade, or even on most trades, is in for a huge surprise. fkollar@fibtimer.com (Frank Kollar) Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:00 EST