Please go look at the stock market from 2000-2011 and tell me if that's something you genuinely think you'll be able to trade through. The market is up 8% YTD and I see so many people here scared about the market or acting like we're living through the end times. This is what investing is like, sometimes the market is down and sometimes its up. Sometimes its down *for a long* time. If you emotionally can't handle that or are going with some weird herky jerky trading strategy I'm telling you right now you should just max your 401k contribution, setup an automatic transfer to your investment account and look at your investments once a year when you do your roth. Otherwise you're gonna do some of the boneheaded stuff I see in here all the time and be an emotional wreck doing it.
Seriously, if you're getting freaked out by the last month or two active trading is not for you. It isn't for most people, that's why index fund investing is like the number 1 thing you see on here again and again
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