Title: Yes, It's Scary to Invest When Markets Are High | How to Proceed
Headings: Should You Invest When Markets Are High?
Should You Invest When Markets Are High?
Ditching the Herd
Market Highs Aren’t Necessarily Bad
Get Informed
What About a Lump Sum?
Waiting for Things to Cool Down
Important
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Content: The answer, for most long-term investors, is probably “whatever you were doing before”—as long as you’ve been practicing smart investing. But let’s clear this up early: Things could go horribly wrong at any time, so please see the disclaimer at the bottom and make your own decisions. Ditching the Herd
“Contrarians” are investors who prefer to avoid herd mentality. When contrarians see everybody panicking like it’s 2008, they realize that this too shall pass, and they might even buy more stock. They may say “the stock market is on sale” or similar. (Click for full size)
Historically, that has been a helpful reflex—to not join the emotionally charged herd behavior—when it comes to investing. Even when the markets go up, herd mentality can be dangerous. Investors in the tech boom (and every other bubble in history) eventually lost money. 1999 couldn’t last forever.