Frank Kollar

Frank started market timing all the way back in 1982 when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and sparked the 1980s bull rally.Realizing that this Fed change, as well as the resulting stock market rally, could have been forecasted, he began to search for indicators which had strong forecasting ability. Within a year, his first newsletter was launched, Growth Fund Strategies Report which used a market timing strategy consisting of changes in interest rates, Fed changes, Market breadth and market price (using the S&P 500 Index).The strategy was hugely successful. In fact it issued a major sell signal on September 10th, 1987, just five weeks before the market crash on October 19th. This was a clear sign that timing worked if you created a sound trading strategy, and if you disciplined yourself to follow that strategy through thick and thin. Committed to market timing, Frank continued to fine tune the strategy and rode the bull market of the 90s to gains exceeding 1,600 percent. These were heady times for the financial markets, but of course storm clouds were brewing, and again market timing would prove its value in the coming bear market. In 1996 Frank's first market timing website was launched. Market Timer Report used a refined strategy to market time the general U.S. stock market, and followed a variety of growth stock mutual funds. It was geared towards more conservative mutual fund investors and averaged only one to two timing signals a year.By the end of the 1990s, the strategy was refined to one that followed market trends instead of using interest rates and breadth on which to base market timing decisions. this change was fortuitous considering the major declines just ahead. Because trend following never missed any trends, and those trends which failed resulted in either small gains or losses, it became apparent that this was the better way to profit in what was quickly becoming a hugely overbought stock market. Trading trends became the mainstay of Frank's market timing. The bear market of 2000 through 2002 generated substantial bearish position profits by following trends and Frank began using Fibonacci support and resistance levels to look forward and help identify trends. In 2002, the name of the online market timing service was changed to Fibtimer.com. This change was to better identify ourselves to market timers. We were trend traders, but we used Fibonacci support and resistance analysis to look forward and help us understand what the market would do in the coming weeks and months. We also began the process of adding new timing strategies, using our trend trading systems to develop both aggressive market timing strategies as well as conservative market timing strategies. In time we added sector fund timing strategies, gold fund timing strategies, bond fund and small cap fund timing strategies. In 2003 we expanded to ETF timing strategies as well as starting a portfolio of individual stocks. All using our trend following systems to time the markets. There timing strategies, as expected, have been creating solid profits for subscribers. Frank is currently the editor and chief market analyst of FibTimer.com, as well as president of Kollar Market Analytics, Inc. which runs several successful financial websites.