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Re:In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (2011) by kgwgk on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:57PM (#12726806)
You don't have to wait until the bottom, but it's obviously better to buy assets when they are "cheap" rather than "expensive".

Valuation and long-term future returns seem indeed related historically https://www.oppenheimerfunds.com/private-client-groups/artic...

For a more detailed treatment: https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/s338.pdf

Of course this kind of arguments are not bullet-proof, see for example: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2014/06/critique/

And one could have missed the last years of bull market applying these arguments already in 2013 (it doesn't mean that the conclusion was wrong with the 2023 horizon, though).

Anyway, ignoring valuation completely doesn't seem the right thing to do and people try to forecast returns to make asset allocation decisions: https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/asset-allocation.ht...

I wouldn't call that market timing.

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