This Stock Market Mistake Was Very Costly in 2024. Here's What Investors Must Know for 2025.
The mainstream media often discusses the stock market with a short-term mindset. After analyzing how the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) performed in the first 10 months of 2024, Goldman Sachs analysts wrote, "While investors may want to wait for a better entry point, we believe that the potential benefit of investing, even at an inopportune time, outweighs the downside of not investing at all." Indeed, one of the worst mistakes investors could have made in 2024 was to sit on the sidelines.