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      Weekly Report from the FibTimer Stock Market Timing Services


To Conform Or Not To Conform?
Breaking Away From The Masses.

Humans have a natural tendency to follow the crowd, but when timing the markets, following the crowd can often result in losses.

Unless you are in the middle of a long term trend, it usually doesn't work to conform to the masses.

Expert market timers know how to spot trends and they make sure to climb on board and profit. But often, the very same buy and sell decisions, which must be executed to jump on board that trend, are in direct conflict with current market sentiment.

It is not easy to make that trade when it conflicts with what seemingly everyone else is doing.

Interestingly, your ability to break away from what the masses are doing, from current sentiment, may have a lot to do with your personality.

Following The Crowd

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.

All humans inherited this legacy, and it is shown in the security we feel when we follow the crowd.

The most successful members of society have seen the virtues in following the crowd. They have learned to look for rules to follow and to decide which standards to strive for. Blind obedience to authority may not be beneficial but compromise is.

   "Trends are created by the masses. Those same masses who are buying stocks at the top of a rally, and selling stocks at the bottom of a correction."
To be successful, it was vital to protect one's self interests yet also stay within the bounds of acceptable behavior.

Although you've been frequently warned about the pitfalls of following the crowd, it's important to recognize that it is a survival instinct that is ingrained not only in humans, but in most animals too. Think of herds of deer, flocks of birds, swarms of insects, schools of fish. There is safety in numbers.

Going Our Own Way

Although following the crowd isn't bad all the time, such as during a long term rally, there are times when a market timer should not follow the crowd.

If all we had to do to be profitable was follow our instincts, we would likely be making the same buy and sell decisions as the vast majority of traders. But just as the vast majority of traders are NOT profitable... as market timers we want to "break away" from their emotional trading and BE profitable.

Market timers trade market trends. Trends are created by the masses. Those same masses who are buying stocks at the top of a rally, and selling stocks at the bottom of a correction.

This means that most of the time, as market timers, we must go our own way. And right there is the crux of the problem.

As soon as our timing strategy, which is NOT based on the emotions of the masses, issues a buy or sell signal contrary to the current sentiment, our very human survival instincts kick in. We want to STAY with the crowd. It is hard to do what your instincts tell you not to do.

But those market timers who are successful, have learned to do just that.

Breaking Away From The Masses

We WANT to follow the masses. It is comforting.

But if we want to profit when the masses do not, we must learn to push down those same instincts which have made us successful in life, and refuse to allow them to control our buy and sell decisions.

It is true that the crowd is often right... until a turning point occurs. But when the markets turn, the crowd holds on, often until most if not all their gains have evaporated.

Going against the crowd takes a special kind of person, a person who isn't afraid of risk but doesn't seek it out, a person who looks inward only, and doesn't need reassurance from others.

FibTimer has spent years developing and fine tuning market timing strategies that are profitable. Look at the historical trading results. These results can be yours, but you must commit to trading the strategies for the months and years necessary to realize them.

Break away from the masses and you too can realize the profits that we have achieved over the years.



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