You should never attempt to profit from your core position.

Only if it is large enough (can you sleep comfortably at night, regardless of the size of ups and downs?) should you consider using maybe ten percent to try and time the dips.

But why not do this instead? Rather than dollar cost averaging with all your available cash, sit on twenty percent of your investible funds each month... until that dip appears that you think will show? Then back up the truck, repeat the process.

If you try and time the market it would be just your luck to liquidate at 15x face (as I see a few members doing) and then watch despairingly

as the price exceeds 16x, 17x, 20x... all the while they're waiting to buy back in

on "a dip that never comes"(no, not a virgin geek)

. Read the mission statement for precious metals investors, and then think twice about trying to outguess the trend.
