Have 40k sitting in cash in my fidelity. Outside of that, I have 25k invested in Robinhood, 16k invested in fidelity and 18k in my 401k. I got into investing a month ago and I’ve seen some decent returns so far but everything seems overpriced at the moment. I keep waiting for a dip but I also don’t want my 40k to just be waiting around not growing. Should I dump it into index funds until I see a dip in a stock I want and then pull it out and invest? Or be patient and wait for the dip?

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Look up dollar cost averaging. Basically since time in the market is better than timing the market, start putting in chunks now. Over a long period of time things should trend upwards and you’ll make money regardless of overpriced securities now. You can always hold a chunk for the dip, but if the dip doesn’t come you’ll still have a portion growing. Way oversimplified here but hopefully you get the point

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