One of these days you will be right. However, the market can go up 20-30 per cent until that happens. It is very tough to time the market.
The old debate is that timing's impossible if everyone already has the same info and nobody can anticipate the next guy. What the rest of us are seeing is that no two traders are alike; each has his own time frame, goals, and limits and that makes for patterns w/ signals. Bottom line is that while it's "very tough to time", people can still time a side of the market for their own particular needs.