...If you listen to this kind of advise you sit on the sidelines trying to time when to buy back in and there is always another crow cawing that the market will tank soon.
Most Bull markets climb a “Wall of Worry”
and peak when optimism is highest.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wallofworry.asp
You need a healthy stomach lining to be an investor and the knowledge that there is no perfection.
The Obama years were a multi-year lesson in humility, and in holding to your course despite abysmal market conditions with no refuge in bonds. President Trump made a sea change. Once again American industry and capitalism are set free to soar. With the EU dampening productivity and competitiveness abroad we have the wind at our backs.