Timing the Market exposed

What would happen if you were able to time the stock market perfectly and buy at the bottom of the last 5 stock market crashes? In this investing for beginners video, you'll learn something very important for long term wealth creation.

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[WillWillTellStories]

Wow, so automatic investing outperforms impossibly perfect market timing. Excellent vid dude.

[gyulazen]

Great video Richard, Iam the consistent Chris 😀, my favourite quote about timing the Market: “Time in the Market is more important than timing the Market”

[willtischler]

This was by far my favourite one so far

[InvestingwithHawar]

Corporate earnings go up more often than down so it makes sense to be invested more than being on sidelines. If earnings didn’t go up so many of us would be out of a job. Great video!

[catherineevel]

Super interesting studies/examples you have used to validate the power in investing your hard earned money monthly and watch it grow! You should teach this to the high school kids that have part time jobs. $200 month at a young age sets them up for life! Awesome job!

[sharethaholmancooper]

This video is very eye opening! Thanks for sharing. I’m older now, but I guess it’s not too late to start with the consistency approach.

[jakubwp]

This is by far the best video about DCA I’ve seen. It convinced me to start investing every single month!

[thinhkl]

Great content! Thanks for your great work mate. You've got my like and subscribe.

[JCCanada]

Agree, just buy good quality dividend paying companies, and hold long term. I only trade my golds, buying them when they are out of favour and selling them at the height of whatever panic is gripping the market.

[calabrais]

Misleading. I would like to see a fourth player actually buying low and selling high. So buy at the dip, sell at the high, place in bank account. Then invest all of that money into buying the next dip, rinse and repeat.

[Layklant]

Thanks for all your videos sir. Gold!

[kara-mariehall]

Hi, does this strategy (DCA) work for individual stocks as well? Let's say I have around 10 individual stocks in my portfolio and want to distribute $1000 monthly equally among them (some may be whole shares, some fractional depending on the price). Is it better to wait for them to decrease in price or DCA works just as well?

With my index funds, it's really easy for me to DCA, but when I see price changes on my individual stocks, I hesitate and feel there's a "better" time to invest the money, but at the same time, I know consistency is key. Thoughts?

[antonio.]

wow this is insane! i'm surprised too

[peacefulruler]

Richard Hopkins interesting and useful video.
Point taken that being in the market is more important than sitting on the sidelines if we have no knowledge of crashes and peaks.

However, you completely left out some important cases: people that sold at or near the peaks and bought after the drops. It’s untrue that we never have any knowledge or insight into what the market will do.

Market timing isn’t just about when you buy but when you sell.

[myrnaevel]

Richard your advise is very sound. It is crazy that so many people still think they can time the market!
Dollar cost averaging into a diversified group of funds is the way to become wealthy.
Good stuff, keep it going and you will be helping all your subscribers. (Unless of course they start getting greedy)
Jim

[maiazarmair]

Love this video! I’m Chris :) everyone except my brother tells me it’s wrong and glad it’s actually the right way!

[arunvijayanadhababu]

Great stuff!

This should be applicable for stocks that have a durable competitive advantage right? We can dollor cost average it monthly irrespective of margin of safety / intrinsic value?

[osu]

What would you say about the studies that show lump sum investing beating DCA more than 2/3 of the time? I believe Vanguard has done such a study.

[msdiane]

Awesome video! Well explain and love the visuals! Keep em coming! I’ve been waiting for the market to crash before entering 😩... I guess it’s time to learn from my mistakes 🤪

[danielsalgado]

Just got a new subscriber thanks for the info