What stops someone from just selling a stock at every peak and buying at every dip? Wouldn’t you be making money either way the stock goes?

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What stops someone from just selling a stock at every peak and buying at every dip? Wouldn’t you be making money either way the stock goes?

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Well that is the goal. But no one has created an accurate way to predict the future of a stock price.

There area methods of trying to predict what the price will do. Lots of different statistical models and different averages and such. People look at news along with technical indicators to attempt to form an accurate estimate of what the stock price will do and determine if that stock is a good one to buy, and when is a good entry and exit point

Some people are successful at it. Most are not.