Are you a trader or investor?
If you are an investor, forget the news and stick to your plan whatever that may be. Just about any study finds that you will be unable to time the market as a whole.
If you are a trader ask someone else because I am not. I don’t have the temperament for what I consider to be mostly gambling. I consider the market manipulated by news and largely operating on the bigger fool principle as well as hoping to find the next Apple, Nividia or whatever.
You will find others in this post echo at least part of my sentiment.
100%, you nailed it, a perfect comment!
I am an INVESTOR. I am NOT a TRADER!
Far, far too many people claim they want to “invest” but they function like traders.
*Some* traders do quite well. I don’t stinkeye them. I don’t hate them. They provide necessary market liquidity.
However, I am not a trader. I’m an investor.
From a financial well-being perspective? Your point is perhaps the single, most valuable distinction people should make.