We can’t control the market, and we can’t control the overall timing with which we invest. All we can do is play the cards that we are dealt, invest early and often, and steel ourselves to.
Let’s now rewind the clock back another ten years or so, all the way to that fateful January 2000. At the time, investors were riding the dot-com sugar high, and little did they know that the party was about to come to an extremely painful end.