Because market timing is an awful financial decision.

Feb 5, 2020
10:44:00am

memento All-American

For example: "Looking back over the 20-year period from Jan. 1, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2018, if you missed the top 10 best days in the stock market, your overall return was cut in half. That's a significant difference for only 10 days over two decades!"

The Motley Fool

What Happens When You Miss the Best Days in the Stock Market? | The Motley Fool

Tempted to sit on the sidelines during a market correction? Here's what you'd give up.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/11/what-happens-when-you-miss-the-best-days-in-the-st.aspx

And listening to people who would that "person X" winning would be catastrophic is empty rhetoric.

https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/consequences.png

Some other good articles on the perils of market timing:

Of Dollars And Data

Even God Couldn't Beat Dollar-Cost Averaging

The Problem with Buying the Dip Photo: Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash This is the last article you will ever need to read on market timing. It’s a bold claim, but I’m not messing around. So strap in, because the training wheels are off on this one. To start, let’s play a game: Imagine you are dropped somewhere in...

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-cost-averaging/

Of Dollars And Data

Why Market Timing Can Be So Appealing

On the temptation of having cash on the sidelines.

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-market-timing-can-be-so-appealing/[https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-market-timing-can-be-so-appealing/?utm_source=Daily+AR&utm_campaign=8092254b27-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c08a59015d-8092254b27-144147369]