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REDDIT

Why do people say these common things regarding investing?

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Mar 19, 2025 · 17:13

Time in the market beats timing the market

Past results aren't indicitave of future performance

If it's not way up after 30 years, we'll have bigger problems to worry about!

Etc

So it's basically a 100 percent guarantee to be way up after decades. Even if someone is old, wouldn't their balance still be insanely high after a crash as long as they invested early and often? Plus recovery seems to be fairly quick, like covid. Even a lost decade seems amazing, all that time to buy and look what happened since

Idk what I'm missing but it
Seems like you can't lose

Unless someone is like 60 plus shouldn't everyone hope things drop further for like a decade until we're right back at all time highs? I want to buy low now, not as it goes up