Currently have $22k sitting in hysa. However I have $15k in student loans with 4% interest rate. I keep think I can use my savings to invest when stock market goes down. Should I pay my loans instead?

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Timing the stock market is a losing game. Get rid of your loans or invest now into index funds.

Make sure you leave an emergency fund though

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To me, cash is king, I would keep it and just pay the payments, I would sleep better knowing I had cash to pay off my debts vs no debt and low cash. For example, I have 3x mortgage in the stock market, I know I can pay it off, but it doesn’t make sense because getting cash out of a house is a pain where as in 3 days I can get it from the stock market if needed

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Makes sense. The stock market is just ridiculously high right now.

High?
Ridiculously high?
It took S&P merely a little over two years to double, going from 750 to 1500 in the 90s.
From there it took almost 20 years to get to where we are now (3000).
I say it’s pretty cheap and the rally has just begun.

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