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Comment by throw0101a

Investing at the peaks isn't that disastrous as long as you don't bail out:

> Meet Bob.

> Bob is the world’s worst market timer.

> What follows is Bob’s tale of terrible timing of his stock purchases.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

Better yet, just put away a little every month and get on with life:

> Logically, it seems like Buy the Dip can’t lose. If you know when you are at a bottom, you can always buy at the cheapest price relative to the all-time highs in that period. However, if you actually run this strategy you will see that Buy the Dip underperforms DCA over 70% of the time. This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

parent throw0101a 7 years ago

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