One of the most effective tools for timing the trade is Elliott Wave Analysis.

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Can an investor make money owning the stock of a company that rides the wave of a fad without volatile exposure to market timing?

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Good timing, perhaps, for card-processing giant Visa to wave the flag in Myanmar for card payments, with an emphasis on the potential for mobile-phone transfers to speed up the rollout of financial services.

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And the timing is right: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has come under intense scrutiny lately amid a wave of executive defections.

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