The recommended period to buy any share product, and that includes unit trusts, is when the markets are at a low ebb. The financial groups how manage unit trusts often run many different ones. This allows them to pick out the best performer in their pack, trumpet that it's done fantastically well and casually disregard the mediocre showing of the rest. Another drawback is that there's very little fun in unit trusts. They don't rise and fall as quickly as shares, and the exciting decisions are left to the managers.
Private investors have nothing to do - other than to choose when to pull out or stay in.
Tip Sheets These are weekly or monthly newsletters which give several share tips per issue. You buy them through subscription. Tip sheets have a tendency to produce advertising literature which makes a big fuss of their fruitful hints, while ignoring their dogs. Their editors claim a lot of research is done before recommendations are made, and that's probably true. Buy you may feel you get enough advice from your newspaper, especially as the cost of most tip sheets is on the high side.