I don’t know but I think the strategy for investing in the markets are sort of different from buying real estate.
With real estate, you are limited by one large purchase every so often.
With stocks, metals, bonds, etc, your strategy doesn’t have to be move the entire bucket into the market at once. If you are risk adverse z maybe the thing to do is setup an auto investment plan that auto-invests a small amount each month or twice a month. That way, if you moved in at a wrong time, it’s only a tiny portion of your total worth that you will eventually move in over a long period of time. it removes any emotions from that decision. The problem with counting on “gut feeling” is most people aren’t smarter than the markets.
Too many people are way too emotional and make things more complicated than basic investing should be. That auto invest plan would be on auto pilot irrespective of how one feels about politics, economy, etc, some of which one’s feeling might not even be correct….God forbid to actually make financial decisions based on a gut feeling or mood. all those people talking about that one time “kill” in speculation in the markets probably aren’t talking a out the dozen or so other times they were wrong and got their ass kicked. that or they waited a long time for that one time “crash” to get in at a really low price…and waited for a long long long time…
