Recent content by justthink

i joined the club 10 weeks ago and have no regrets. have been down 60,000 and up 12,000 but know long term i will be fine. i absolutely LOVE monday mornings.

And a week after worrying about investing in stock funds the last thing i expected was for the bond funds to drop so much. Investing builds character.

it's me op reporting back! to answer a few questions i just retired and this is a lump sum pension. i have enough other savings i won't have to touch this for 5 or 6 years. i am an etf investor. so tuesday i bought bond etf's, foreign stock etf's, a tiny bit in real estate...then i put half of...

sincere thanks to everyone who responded it is awesome to have someone to "talk" to about these tough decisions. since this will be such a large chunck of my portfolio i believe i will go for 1/2 tomorrow and dca over 4 months even though logic says to put it all in now. will check back with you...

after posting this i did some googling on dollar cost averaging vs. whole lump sum at once and it seems mathematically doing the whole lump at once is a little better...unless you are chicken which i guess i am....maybe i will break it up over 3 months....then again i shouldn't have to touch...

Curious on peoples opinions on this. Have a bunch of money to invest right now. Want to add to my 50/50 portfolio. Am I dumb to be nervous about putting a large chunk of money in stock funds right now with the market so high? Would you just dump it all in now? Or average out the stock portion...