[Retric]

If you can sell 100 shares today and use that money to buy buy 200 shares in 6 months then you are better off than if you had held 100 shares for that same six months as long as you buy back into the market.

Actually trying to time the market is largely a fools game, but people do get lucky. Or more often realize they shouldn’t try and time the market.

[roflyear]

Yah and if I could buy bananas today for $1 and sell them tomorrow for $5 I'd be fairly wealthy. And if my uncle was a monkey and my aunt a banana farmer we'd all be well off.

[seoaeu]

Yeah, except in six months you’d be thinking of waiting until you could buy 300 shares, and might miss the buying window entirely

[andsoitis]

Right. Hindsight is 2020 but that does not an investment strategy make.