Markets drop 40% – I fear investing now, don’t know how much pain is left. I’ll not invest
Markets up about 50% – I fear investing now, don’t understand the reason it went up so fast. I’ll not invest
Market is range bound for about 2 years – I fear investing now, market is going nowhere. I’ll not invest
Main Market Index is up but the larger breadth of the market is down – I fear investing now, don’t know when the broader economy will turnaround. I’ll not invest
GDP collapsing to multi-decade lows – I fear investing now, the economy is going no where. I’ll not invest
Geopolitical issues, currency & trade wars, twitter fights etc. – I fear investing now, the world has no future. I’ll not invest
Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Nassem Taleb, Raghuram Rajan, IMF Chief, WHO Chief, World Bank Chief, Wall Street experts, Hedge Fund managers, local experts, regional tv channels etc. have now started to talk about the coming depression like in 1929 – I fear investing now with so many experts expressing the same view. I’ll not invest
and….
Everything around me looks bouyant, beautiful, no uncertainty, all going good – I fear investing now, everything can’t be so good around me, it has to collapse one day. I’ll not invest
The common thread – I fear & I’ll not Invest now
All data points are from the past
All experts have a view but nobody has a clue
No one has a collective idea of the infinite variables impacting markets
Millions of books on Investing out there, but the pain in the markets always repeats, repeats and repeats
There is no book to take the pain out of investing.
Thousands of market cycles happened over decades and will continue to happen in the future too but probably in compressed time frames and more frequently; but investors never learn – cycles come along to ride them over and not to dodge them
Getting down the bicycle before reaching your destination is more dangerous than riding it through potholes & ditches
Well said