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title: The Cost of Trying to Time the Market
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# [The Cost of Trying to Time the Market](https://blog.bh-co.com/blog/investments/the-cost-of-trying-to-time-the-market)

 Written by [Ginnie Baker](https://blog.bh-co.com/blog/investments/author/ginnie-baker) | Mar 18, 2020 5:00:00 AM

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- A hypothetical $1,000 turns into $121,353 from 1970 through March 17, 2020.
- Miss the S&P 500’s five best days and the return dwindles to $77,056. Miss the 25 best days and that’s $26,989.
- There’s no proven way to time the market—targeting the best days or moving to the sidelines to avoid the worst—so history argues for staying put through good times and bad.

Missing only a few days of strong returns can drastically impact overall performance.

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