Is the market too high to invest now?
In 2024 the stock market has hit a few all-time highs. It's up right now. If you're trying to get started with investing, you might ask yourself if this is your year, or if you should wait for a crash? They say history doesn't tell you what will happen in the future, but the stock market is a place where we have a lot of history and if you're going to invest, you might want to understand how it's worked for the last 100 years: As you can see, there were LOTS of points along the timeline where people invested at an all time high and it just kept going up, their shares were worth more the next month, year, day. There were a few points where the market went down. Look at late 2007, for example. The S&P 500 was at an all time high of $1540. The 2008 housing crisis happened and it dropped as low as $760. Did the people who invested at $1540 lose money? Only if they sold their shares. If they held, they'd now have those same shares worth $5000 today! Also notice ...