This is another guest blog from fellow early retiree, STE:
I guess everyone would have their own strategies or methods to use their war-chest in hoping to get the best return from the market. Since our “war-chest “ is quite limited , sometime we may face the problems of using up the war-chest quickly and seeing the share price keep dropping from the last purchased . Here , I’m not trying to promote the “market timing “ in hoping to get the lowest price before market swing upwards. I always think that “time in the market “ is much more important that “timing the market “ as we may see the power of compounding if we stayed long enough in the market .
But remember ,trying to “timing the market “ in short time frame e.g days , weeks or even months … is speculative in nature rather than investment . What I am trying to explain is ......