Hi everyone, thank you for coming back to my blog. I hope you found my last blog interesting and useful, where I covered ‘An Important Introduction To Shareholder Advocacy’.In this blog, I’m going to cover why attempting to time the market is a bad idea and what potential returns you could lose out on if you do stick to a short-term investing strategy instead of a long-term one.It’s every investor’s dream to time the market. Ph.D.’s in finance and mathematics toil away at market simulations. However, no one has ever developed a system of timing the market that proved to be successful. The variables involved are too complex, and the impact of human-driven factors is too high.Avoid listening to the financial pundits that claim today is a great day or a bad day to get into or out of the market. If they were consistently correct, they wouldn’t bother telling you. Instead, they’d be off adding to their billions.Consider these reasons, why not to time the market next time you are thinking of doing so:There are plenty of wealthy investors, but few of them got that way by predicting short-term changes in the market.· There are wealthy investors that became wealthy by taking long-term positions.· Hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers are wealthy, but they get paid whether they perform well or not.· A few short-term investors have made it big, but they lose money more frequently than they make money (a few big gains can offset multiple losses, it’s a gamble).· In short, no one has consistently done well timing the market, and you’re unlikely to be the first.When most people try to time the market, they get out too soon. Eventually, the market falls, but then they wait too long to get back in. You also face…