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It's not like this is a millennial thing:
And you can keep going back. Also, the plural of crisis is crises.
Anyone who started investing during one of those early recessions or dot com bubble made huge amounts of money after a few years.
Right now is also a great time to invest. Dont be scared and just buy stocks. None of this will matter in a few years and market will be back at its peak.
It has happened 100% of the time so far. Sometimes it takes longer than 2 years, sometimes shorter, but market always goes up.
Anyone who timed it perfectly, sure. Some people thought the market had hit bottom and it just kept falling.
And everything that has happened in the past will definitely always happen in the future. Like, it's June 1990 in Japan, just buy the dip. The market always goes up. It's just a correction.
You dont have to time it perfectly. Even if you bought at the top, the US stocks are much higher today then in the 1990s or 2000s.
Your Japan example looks bad but seems a bit chosen as the exception to the rule. If you pick 100 countries in the west, most of them probably have better development than Japan? I havent looked but thats what I would guess. And specially the US.
Now with Trump at the wheel, all bets are off and it could very well crash more. But still, these times its good to keep buying. History has shown it pays off very much almost always.
Except when it doesn't.
Well ok. Buy when its high prices then. Just doesnt make sense to me, but if it feels better... :)
Don't try to time the market. Buy on a regular basis when you can afford it. And don't assume the market is always going to go up just because it used to do that when sane people were in charge.