Stop measuring what you made against what you wish you had made. That mindset turns real profits into regrets. It distorts your judgment, blinds you to the fact that you actually won, and opens the door to greed.

Most people don’t lose because they’re wrong. They lose because they didn’t lock in profits when they were right.

When it comes to timing the market, yes, everyone is doing it. Every time someone DCA’s during an uptrend or posts a bullish chart at resistance, they’re making a timing decision whether they realize it or not. However, they’ll only bring it up again if they happened to get it right. If the call fails, and it often does, they disappear, delete the evidence, and fall back on the lazy excuse: “No one can time the market”

It’s not that they don’t try. Everyone tries. The truth is, they try, fail, and then pretend they never tried at all. So the next time someone tells you that timing the market is impossible, remember that they’re not avoiding it -- They’re just terrible at it.