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Steelrolled

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6. Exactly

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #5)

Thu May 14, 2020, 05:48 PM

May 2020

If the market is falling, it is easy to get out, but very difficult to know when to get back in. It kills people to come back in at a higher prices than they sold, and it just gets worse and worse for them as the market recovers. I know a number of people who this happened to in the 2009 crash.

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