Good time to start Investment

 The good time to start investment is the movement you have cash on hand. There is no good time better than that. Before investing one should think about the duration of how long to stay invested. It is not at all important when to start. We should only focus on our goals while investing.

Please refer below the Nifty chart since its inception.

Not only COVID,, but there are many obstacles in Nifty including Kargil war, Lehman Brothers Crisis , Government instability and so on. Every time there is an obstacle, Nifty corrected upto 40% or more. Inspite of all such corrections, still nifty managed to move from 1000 points in 1996 to 23500 points in 2024 with a CAGR of 18%. Every time there is a correction, Nifty managed to bounce back exponentially.

No one predicted COVID, Kargil war, Lehman Brothers Issue or some other issues that we saw. Everything came and went. No one is discussing them today. We will see much more obstacles in coming days. None of us can predict them.

Instead of thinking when to invest, we should plan how to invest.

We should have goal oriented investments.

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