Outside the Box: ‘Buy the dip’ is a horrible stock-market strategy — and these charts prove it

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I’ve previously written about why buying the dip can’t beat dollar-cost averaging, even if you were God. However, I feel like that article was a bit too extreme. Buy the Dip was defeated in one fell swoop. It never had a fighting chance. There was no last meal, no departing words, and no funeral procession that followed.

But today, I’m going to change all that. Because today I’m going to give Buy the Dip the proper burial that it deserves and demonstrate without a reasonable doubt why it is a terrible investment strategy.