Dow hits Record 22K,,,,,,,,

[drray23]

16. true but its easier to invest in indexed stocks and let it ride.

For example the money you invested at the end of bush years when dow was at 6000 bought shares that are now worth over 3 times what they were.
Very few people are able to beat the market by selling and buying at the right time. First, you need to do that with a lot of money if you want to offset the cost of the brokerage fees every time you transact. Second, this implies that you can lose a lot of money if you dont do the right thing at exactly the right time. You may have increased the potential rewards but you also increase the risks greatly.

Unless you have more than say a million in the market and you can do that fulltime, its foolish to try. You will lose money for sure.