Staying invested: the cost of missing the best days

5 chapters·15 min·action plan·mastery check

Chapter 1 of 5

The idea

Many of the market's best days come within weeks of its worst.

Timing is expensive

Studies of the US market show that missing just the 10 best days over 20 years can roughly halve your final return. Those days often arrive in the middle of a scary fall, when people have already sold.

Predict first

Over 20 years, missing just the 10 best days in the US market roughly does what to your ending pot?

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