1.   An active group has been a coterie of financial advisers who practice market timing, darting quickly in and out of equity mutual funds and money market accounts.

2.   As you probably know, market timing is a difficult art, or perhaps a black science.

3.   But that smacks of market timing, a strategy generally dismissed as not adding value in the long run.

4.   But who am I to counsel a person such as yourself on market timing?

5.   He views sector investing as an extreme form of market timing.

6.   How should you decide whether to try timing the market?

7.   Increasingly, they want to make their own decisions on market timing and asset allocation, and so resent managers who take these decisions out of their hands.

8.   Instead, it is a result of timing the market.

9.   Is it plain old luck or smart market timing?

10.   It is tempting to dump stocks when prices slump while planning to buy again when they hit bottom, a process known as timing the market.