Seventeen years of whipsawing heartbreak for buy and hold investors, but wonderful opportunities for market-timing.

FORBES: Buy-And-Hold Is Dead And Gone

The aggressiveness of the plans surprised investors, sending stocks whipsawing, the yen tumbling and government-bond yields to record lows.

WSJ: Japanese Markets Awaken With Wild Swings

Whipsawing commodity prices and the economic downturn blunted that goal and sales have stalled for the last two years.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Determining which direction the market will take is the million-dollar question that has investors scrambling to cope with a whipsawing market.

WSJ: Oil Market Finds Itself in 'No Man's Land'

Tough times in the market with whipsawing stocks, bankruptcies and takeovers of major financial institutions make for a difficult investing climate.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But mainly, the problem was the whipsawing of the stock markets.

NPR: Money Woes Muzzle Independent Political Groups

Meanwhile those who are trying to invest are being brutalized by the market volatility and whipsawing that follows each twitch in the news reports from Europe.

FORBES: Time For The U.S. To Enter The Financial War In Europe

The price of unusual uncertainty is almost sure to be an unusual level of whipsawing volatility, and at a time when investor sentiment is at a high level of complacency.

FORBES: With The Election And Fed Uncertainty Soon Resolved, Grip Tightly For Stock Market Volatility