About & editorial standards

StockTiming is an independent, educational resource about market timing — the decision of when to be in or out of the market, and the indicators people use to make that call: moving averages, RSI and MACD, market breadth, seasonality, sentiment, and monetary policy.

We are not a newsletter selling signals, and we do not tell you what to buy or when. We explain how each method actually behaves, and we build interactive tools so you can test the idea on your own assumptions and see the result for yourself.

Market timing is hard. Decades of evidence show that most attempts to time the market underperform simply staying invested — largely because a handful of the best days drive a disproportionate share of long-run returns, and they tend to cluster near the worst ones.

So we do not promise a winning system. Instead, every guide and tool is built to show both sides: when a method tends to help, and when it whipsaws, lags, or quietly costs you money. If a technique's edge is fragile or contested, we say so.

• Historical figures (e.g. long-run index returns, drawdown episodes, seasonal averages) come from verifiable public sources, and we cite them where we use them.
• Interactive tools are explicit about their data. Where a tool uses a simulated price series to illustrate a concept (like how a moving-average crossover behaves in trends vs. choppy markets), it is clearly labelled as illustrative — never presented as a real backtest or a forecast.
• We do not fabricate statistics. If we cannot source a number, we leave it out rather than guess.

Articles are published by StockTiming Research, our editorial desk. We focus on clear explanations grounded in established finance and market-microstructure research, written for self-directed investors rather than professional traders.

Everything on StockTiming is for education only. It is not financial, investment, or trading advice, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Markets carry risk, past performance does not predict future results, and you should consider your own situation (and where appropriate a licensed professional) before acting.

Spotted an error, or want to suggest a topic or tool? Please contact us. Corrections are welcome — accuracy matters more to us than looking right.