MarketWatch Premium: This surprising strategy for timing the stock market has an academic seal of approval

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There is an easy way to successfully time the stock market, according to a recent academic study: Increase your equity exposure when the market’s volatility (as measured by indicators such as the VIX) is lower than where it was a month previously—and vice versa.

This advice is surprising for at least three reasons:

This research was based…