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kleinbl00  ·  2668 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does anyone know anything about personal finance stuff?

Set a timer. I'll do it often.

The classic argument is that if you missed the 5 best days since 1993 you'd have passed up on most of your gains. The argument made less often is if you missed the 5 worst days since 1993 you'd be fuckin' killin' it.

https://www.ifa.com/12steps/step4/missing_the_best_and_worst_days/

Miss the 5 best days: $10k to $38k instead of $58k.

Miss the 5 worst days: $10k to $90k instead of $58k.

And then they usually say "so you should be invested all the time because we're business majors and can't do fucking math."