#HODLTradingStrategy

If you invest in the markets, these are questions you have probably thought about over the last few days, weeks, and months. Well, there is good news. If you plan to invest for the long term, determining the best time to do so is not that important. Let's take a look at the last few decades of the Sensex index's returns.

Assuming you had invested in a mutual fund that tracks this index at any time between 1990 and 2024 for a single year, you would have seen a wide range of returns.

The best year: investing in early 2009 and selling at the end of the year would have given you an astonishing return of 82%.

On the other hand, if you had bought in early 2008 and held it for that year, you would have experienced a return of -52%.