# Best Funds for investing in market as a whole?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-funds-for-investing-in-market-as-a-whole/849176>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-funds-for-investing-in-market-as-a-whole/849176 "2020-03-10T02:26:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-funds-for-investing-in-market-as-a-whole/849176/21 "2020-03-13T17:48:47Z")

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> [@Bill\_Door](#):
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> And be completely happy about the current stock market decline. People twenty years away from retirement cheering high stock market prices is like people cheering high gasoline prices because their tank is half full. Don’t they know they’re buying, not selling?

I like this analogy. Is it yours? If so, I’ll quote you in the future.

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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-funds-for-investing-in-market-as-a-whole/849176/22 "2020-03-13T18:31:16Z")

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I am in the same boat as the OP, pretty much. Have been moving my 401k from stocks to bonds gradually since 24500, being 90% out as of 3 weeks ago. Have a little cash, too. It just seemed overvalued, and now this.

I kind of like the idea of buying Berkshire- Buffet has a cash hoard bigger than Smaug’s, and I think those guys will crush it in a downturn like this.

But I would advise caution. Things could definitely get worse from here. Check out this guy: [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4331691-bear-market-will-now-enter-new-and-explosive-stage](https://seekingalpha.com/article/4331691-bear-market-will-now-enter-new-and-explosive-stage)

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> Massive economic and health problems are about to confront the majority of Main Street Americans, that up until now, have been oblivious to the dangers of COVID-19.  
> The next leg of the Bear Market will likely be larger, and more painful, than the first.

Nobody know for sure of course, but I do like this writer, plus his premises seem sound. I am considering something like a $1000 per week return to stocks, starting maybe not quite yet. As always, free advice may not exceed face value.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-funds-for-investing-in-market-as-a-whole/849176/23 "2020-03-13T20:59:38Z")

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> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#):
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> I like this analogy. Is it yours? If so, I’ll quote you in the future.

To the best of my recollection; is mine, but in all fairness I’ve been in the stock market since the early 1970s and I do my best to be over-informed, so I may have read it somewhere over the last 50 years and forgotten where.

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