20d • General discussion
Never Time The Market
- Volatility can make the market feel unpredictable.
- But the real risk is not being invested.
- Missing just the 10 best days cuts returns by more than half, a difference of about $45K on a $10K investment.
- And those best days are often clustered.
- In recent markets, many of the biggest gains came right after selloffs tied to tariffs and geopolitical headlines.
- Owning stocks on just those days would have returned about 52%, compared with roughly 12% for buying and holding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- But predicting when that relief comes is nearly impossible, and exactly what makes timing so difficult.
- As Peter Lynch once said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”
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Never Time The Market
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