When do you predict the dip? I've been waiting for so long, but don't want to buy now. VTI seems inflated.

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Time in market > timing the market

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What is “the market?” S&P? NASDAQ? Dow? Your own personal basket of stocks?

Betting on the right stocks can give you 100%+ returns within a year. Buy and hold hopes for 7% per year

I’m on team YOLO

I was waiting for the dip in 2009, never happened.

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So sit out and wait for the dip. No one is stopping you from market timing.

Keep waiting, maybe it’ll dip in 2153

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If Biden wins, look out below.

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A1 You realize this post specifically asked about a dip in a stock ETF, right?

I can’t suggest enough a buy and hold (and continue to invest) strategy for the long term. Especially in a retirement wrapper where time is on your side.

If you feel the itch to try and time market, play individual stocks, etc break off a separate and small piece of your portfolio to scratch that itch then go back and reassess in a couple years if that should be more/less of your approach.

People start to get major FOMO these days when others talk about cashing out right before the market tanked with COVID, making a killing in Tesla, bitcoin a couple years ago, etc

Just a reminder that people tend to publicize their winners and hide their losers... there are plenty of people who have been waiting for a big drop these last couple months and have missed out on a massive run up.

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Just buy and hold baby

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09/17/20

It won’t have any meaningful dip until the Federal Reserve pulls back their support (which may never happen)

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