<prompt> Human: Edit: Forgot a period  <response>: Timing the market rarely works for most people. For all you know, the election could cause the markets to take off, and you would miss out. If this money is being invested for the long term, like decades, and you are going to be contributing regularly over those decades, anything that happens after this particular election wont make much difference in the long run.That being said, if you are really worried, sure you can wait a couple of months, because on the flip side, over decades it probably wont make much difference either way whether you start now or start 2 months from now.Of course, what could happen is that if you wait until 2 months from now, at that time there will be some other thing that will have you worried, and this will be a never-ending cycle and you will never, ever invest.Many people use something called dollar cost averaging to level things out and help alleviate these worries. In that method you just always automatically invest a set dollar amount at some regular interval. Sometimes you will invest at the highs, sometimes at the lows, but in the end it all works out better than trying to time the market every time for years. You can look up that method and read more about it. 