Episode 150: Staying Invested Even When the Market is Falling

When you hear about a big drop in the stock market, do you feel uneasy? Do you consider selling your stocks or not investing any more money right now. That you’ll wait until the market starts to recover? 

If that sounds like you, you need to listen to this podcast episode. I want to encourage you to stay invested. When you deviate from your investment plan due to the performance of the stock market, you are actually practicing market timing, which is a fool game. 

In this episode, I explain why it’s so hard to time the market and why it’s better to stay invested, and keep investing according to your financial or investment plan. That was true even with the Great Depression. The big market drop came in 1929 but the stock market didn’t hit bit bottom until 1932. People who kept investing in 1930 and 1931 and didn’t wait until 1932 ended up with a much higher portfolio by 1942. 

 

Current life expectancy in the US of 79.4 years is from https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/life-expectancy

 

The research study that showed that US male physicians were older when they died compared to male lawyers, other male professionals, and men in general is Frank, Erica et al. Mortality rates and causes among U.S. physicians American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 3, 155 – 159. The Jama paper reporting women physicians have a lower life expectancy compared to male physicians is Patel VR, Liu M, Worsham CM, Stanford FC, Ganguli I, Jena AB. Mortality Among US Physicians and Other Health Care Workers. JAMA Intern Med. Published online February 24, 2025.W

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