People keep pretending timing the market is impossibru!!
But maybe that is because they dont use the rational definition.
Timing the market doesnt mean you took your money out 1-2 days before a major crash happens.
Yeah that would be absurdly lucky, nobody can predict the future to such a level of detail.
But people can time the market by taking their money out a quarter before, 6 months before, even a year before the crash.
A single year of gains prior a crash means very little when the drop is catastrophic that leads to chain sell offs.
In other words, **you can time the market.**