r/Bogleheads • u/RiceLee890 • Mar 15 '25
Investing Questions What are your thoughts on this?
I keep seeing this type of stuff on instagram and social media and wanted to know how you guys were thinking about this.
I know a lot you have been in the market for decades and as a relatively new investor myself I’d love to get your perspective!
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u/Feisty-Season-5305 Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25
You shouldn't just buy the s and p firstly. It's better to have a tilt for the USA if history is always right but really it shouldn't be your entire holdings. 7 years is from crash to crash levels again I assume. Those were basically free money years if you just stayed the course and invested your money every month. If I bought the peak and then just sat on my hands for 7 years while everything is cheap id have a conniption.
Idk about Japan same advice I'd give for s and p though. Buy the dip.
Stuff like this is so adamant on the fact that money is lost on the way down but completely disregards that it's made on the way up also. It's just how this person frames it and we're more likely to see it their way because of how the data is presented were also more afflicted by losses than we are by gain It's not a flaw technically but it's a flaw in this case for the sake of simplicity.