The superbear, in his profitable lair, has been mostly in cash since before the crash.

Longest winning streak since last summer -- but letters that foresaw the Crash of 2008 aren’t on board, writes Peter Brimelow.

Although market timers often proclaim their ability to prosper during both bull and bear markets, the Hulbert Financial Digest has found that market timing systems tend to do best during bear markets.

Beating the 200-day moving average market timing system is surprisingly difficult, reports Mark Hulbert.

If you’re a big fan of college basketball, think twice -- even thrice -- before making any changes to your portfolio over the next couple of weeks, writes Mark Hulbert.

China and Obama may be clashing on whether the yuan should be revalued, writes Peter Brimelow, but one stunningly successful China letter has turned bellowingly bullish anyway.

You can learn a lot about the market’s prevailing mood by analyzing the rationales and justifications that advisers give when they’re wrong.

A top-performing letter refuses to big-think about the stock market. But, hey, it’s sounding optimistic, anyway, writes Peter Brimelow.

While most investors feel like geniuses during bull markets, the devastation caused by bear markets tends to rekindle investor interest in market timing. But is market timing ever successful at calling the critical junctures between bull and bear markets? Given the volatility over the past decade, market timers have certainly had ample opportunity to demonstrate their supposed prowess.

How many stock market timers, of the several hundred monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest, called the bottom of the bear market a year ago? How about the other tops and bottoms of the past decade? Mark Hulbert has the answer.