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Market timing: Moving beyond following trends to start catching potential opportunities
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Time is marked by opportunities, points, and spots rooted in cyclical and periodic development patterns. In investing, market timing is just as significant as choosing which assets to invest in. Timing enables traders to potentially increase profits and decrease losses, which can result in greater returns.
Price is the primary factor influencing trading timing, but market conditions or the overall environment should also be considered. For example, traders need to assess whether negatives are not yet reflected when buying or whether all positive factors (or an overvaluation) have been accounted for when selling. Various timing strategies exist, including those grounded in market value, price momentum, collective predictions, and more. Utilizing tools like the moomoo app's Stock Screener for technical/fundamental analysis or trend projection can help identify potential opportunities.![]()
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Timing the market is challenging. What timing strategies have you personally found useful? How can novice traders refine and improve their market timing abilities? By sharing your own trading journey, you can provide guidance and offer valuable insights into investment theories to new traders.![]()
1. What kind of tools do you use for market timing? How do you use them effectively?
2. Could you describe a recent entry or exit point you discovered? How did you identify it?
3. How can novice traders cultivate their market timing abilities?
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Jakkie_bo : up up up! Sometimes timing the exit can be more important than the entry.
2uEaAZ5u1B : Absolutly! Totally agree with your opinion. timing is really improtant in trading.![[undefined]](https://static.moomoo.com/nnq/emoji/static/image/default/default-black.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/36x36 "undefined")
2uEaAZ5u1B Jakkie_bo : I couldn't agree more! I've learned the hard way that it's not just about buying low and selling high, but also about knowing when to take profits and cut losses.![[undefined]](https://static.moomoo.com/nnq/emoji/static/image/default/default-black.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/36x36 "undefined")
I remember holding onto a stock for too long, hoping it would bounce back, only to see it drop even further. That experience taught me the importance of having an exit plan and sticking to it.
Dave Schulz : I like the RSI to try and capture big moves in the morning after open. Beyond that time the RSI can often be a head fake, or non-indicative of a true move or timing of same. Using it in conjunction with greater time frames and some other indicator to confirm usually gives you a better shot at capturing most if a bigger morning move.
Sanc94 : so what the code lol
mr_cashcow : Personally I think focus on time in the market rather than timing the market because of unpredictability, short term underperformance & effect of transaction cost![[undefined]](https://static.moomoo.com/nnq/emoji/static/image/default/default-black.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/36x36 "undefined")
102937898 : There's lot of factors. Indicators is 1 of them (oversold/overbrought & MA crossing etc), news/rumours, upcoming results/results window & others like sudden ad-hoc news. Too many to use at one time so just focus on what you use/do best & check on the market trend for individual stocks, commodity, index & forex etc![[undefined]](https://static.moomoo.com/nnq/emoji/static/image/default/default-black.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/36x36 "undefined")
protraderx : To a day trader, user interface trading platform and ability to have availability of shorts besides speed are utmost important. Unfortunately, moomoo platform is not design for fast trader. Moomoo need to also make available volume profile, and in platform P&L for each trade opened and closed are very important.
向往成功 : Trading volume increased upwards, following the trend and entering the market.
stevenlsf1 : I used the most is 5day and 20 day simple moving averages for short term trading, plus the support and resistance levels
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