Investing in S&P - Is it the right time?

Planning to invest $50k in S&P500 I invested $12.5k today, and plan to invest: -$12.5k at the end of September -$12.5k at the end of October -$12.5k at the end of November

Does that make sense / am I making a big mistake? Any thoughts are very welcome I am planning to hold long term

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Agree with above. Assuming you're in your 20s, just put the money in and don't worry about getting the exact lowest price. Even if the market immediately drops 30%, by the time you retire that'll be a rounding error

Have also seen research out of GS that missing the top ~20 market rally days in a cycle is significantly worse than buying in right before a dip - not explaining it as well as they did, but the TLDR was to buy in and forget about it instead of trying to time the market to the absolute bottom

 

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