Time in the market is paramount

"Only two people can buy at the bottom and sell at the top, one is god and the other is a liar". - Vijay Kedia The retail investors have always been concerned about timing the market. We finally aim to settle this debate that time in the market is more important than timing the market. To prove our point, we took the BSE Sensex data for the past 10 financial years (FY14-FY23). During this period, there were 2,476 trading days. Had you invested on April 1, 2013 and stayed invested without caring about the market fluctuations till March 31, 2023, you would have comfortably made a return of 1

This article was originally published on April 25, 2023.