Timing the market with precious metals - is it even

• •I've been wrestling with this concept of "timing the market" with my Gold IRA, and frankly, it feels like fighting a ghost.
• •I’ve had my substantial Gold IRA – close to $800k now, mostly in various gold and silver bars, some coins – for almost a decade.
• •Lately, with all the economic headwinds, I’ve been wondering if I should try to be more strategic about buying and selling.

I've been wrestling with this concept of "timing the market" with my Gold IRA, and frankly, it feels like fighting a ghost. I’ve had my substantial Gold IRA – close to $800k now, mostly in various gold and silver bars, some coins – for almost a decade. My primary goal, as a lawyer focused on wealth preservation, has always been to protect my assets from inflation and economic instability, not to get rich quick.

Lately, with all the economic headwinds, I’ve been wondering if I should try to be more strategic about buying and selling. Like, when silver prices dip significantly, should I be aggressively rebalancing my portfolio to buy more silver bars? Or when gold hits an all-time high, should I be trimming some gains to perhaps diversify into something else (within the IRA rules, of course)? But then the counter-argument always pops into my head: "time in the market beats timing the market." It’s an old adage, but it holds a lot of weight, especially when you consider transaction costs and the sheer unpredictability of short-term price movements.

My gut tells me to stick to my original strategy: acquire quality assets – physical silver and gold – and hold them for the long haul. This market timing debate just stirs up unnecessary anxiety, and frankly, as someone already putting in 60+ hour weeks in Philadelphia, I don't have the bandwidth for active day-trading my retirement precious metals. I've been doing a lot of reading on this, even checking out resources like the Learning Center which has some really solid educational materials on market trends and economic indicators. It’s been helpful, but still doesn't fully resolve this underlying tension.

So, for those of you with significant precious metals holdings, how do you approach this? Do you actively try to time your buys and sells based on market fluctuations, or do you simply accumulate and hold? Have any of you had success (or failures) attempting to time the precious metals market? I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has consciously sold a portion of their holdings at what they perceived to be a peak, and reinvested at a dip.