Ignore the fear on Reddit

I come on here daily and see the same thing, posts predicting where the market’s headed next. Covid, tariffs, Iran war, whatever the headline is. Same fear, different day, everyone’s got a crystal ball calling the next bottom or the next 30% drop. I started pouring my cash savings into the market during the tariff war last year, from February through April. I knew I’d never be able to time the bottom, so I just kept averaging down my positions as the market continued to fall. “You bought too early, it’s dropping another 20-30% from here.” I kept buying into April and was down over 15%. My portfolio was up 35% by year end. If you’re buying quality stocks and funds you actually believe in long term, there’s nothing better than buying them at a discount. If people had a crystal ball to know where the market bottoms and picks up, they’d be betting their life savings at those levels, not posting on Reddit. You might get lucky trying to time the market, but your chances doing so are as good as betting on a roulette table. What works for someone investing $100 will be very different from someone deploying $100k. Get ideas from Reddit, discuss and see how others are analyzing investments and events, but don’t let fear from strangers on the internet stop you from building your way to financial success.