How to invest all my cash? (All-in on dividend stocks at this point?)

So I'm an AN1 thinking about how to invest my cash (over 100K) outside of the obvious Roth IRA/401k.

Yes, I know I'm very young and my time horizon is long and therefore the most logical thing is an S&P index fund like VTSAX, can't time the market, dollar-cost avg, etc etc....BUT 

I'm seriously concerned with this market. I don't care how long my time-horizon is, the thought of having to essentially lock away this hard-earned cash for a decade or more to recoup what was lost in the event of a downturn is horrifying and frankly I feel a waste of time with your capital with so many opportunities out there.

Sure, you can't time anything in the market, but their seriously has to be better way then dumping my 100k into SPY, VTSAX, or whatever at these levels.

Currently thinking about just putting it all in a portfolio of high dividend payers like MO, BTI, T. I'm honestly not sure how this all works though in regards to taxes, insulation in the event of a market recession, and how to even go about choosing these stocks. Feel like there is more risk to going all in a few equities regardless? I'm happy to hear more on anyone's opinions regarding this.

In short, I'm really just looking for something out there that doesn't put me on the path of jumping in on equities after everyone else has already enjoyed 12 years of unprecedented wealth gain.

Please any insight would be greatly appreciated thank you. 

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Yeah so that's what I was wondering pretty much on just how insulated dividend stocks are to getting crushed like everything else. I would think they wouldn't be as affected? It's just hard for me to pull the trigger on SPY at this point. Everyone else has had some immense growth these last few years and here I am jumping in just now, I'm probably buying what they even may be selling honestly. 

 

What platform do you guys use to invest? Do you have anything to recommend? Ideally I’d like to have everything (bank account and investing) in a single place. 

 

Honestly, if you already know you won't be able to resist through a downturn, just contribute whatever you can to tax-free schemes you have available (here in UK it's ISA etc) since you are already starting with a significant upside, and then put the rest in some kind of guaranteed deposit that will probably give you something abysmal like 0.5% per year if you lock your money. Better than staying cash and honestly in the current market any asset class could go to shit any day.

Obviously this method is not advisable looking at historical performance and finance knowledge, but you do you. Even if you are very risk averse you can still get exposure to S&P500 with a sum you would be comfortable having locked up for a long period of time.

Like Peter Lynch once said "timing the market rarely, if ever, pays off"

 

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