A few ways to do it: 1. Divide your spare cash into fixed portions to invest at regular intervals (DCA). 2. Decide to percentage to invest at each interval or drop, e.g. 10% of existing spare cash. The next investment will be lower than the previous but if you are buying the drop you might be buying more shares. 3. Wait out till inflation has dropped to the expected range to start to invest, e.g. wait for 4% instead of Fed target of 2%.

Choice of words or wordings. Would you prefer a flatish 8% yield over a 2% yield that doubles in over a 5-year period? Choose your investments based on your investment horizon - 5 years, 10 years or 30 years or more. Are you also looking for price appreciation when you invest in dividend stocks? Higher appreciation is not good when you are thinking of reinvesting your dividends.

"increased worry the central bank could potentially make a policy mistake and raise rates too high, tilting the economy into a recession, even if inflation shows signs of abating."Less intense inflation (more than target 2%) is still inflation. If inflation is not under control and recession sets in, that might lead to stagflation, which is much worse.

Sometimes, we need to put it in another perspective. It is not likely to continue with a 50% growth year over year over year. Manufacturing cannot keep up without doing it overseas. Also, to collect more data for FSD to make it up the next level there would be need for more Tesla cars on the road, squeezing margins would be one way to help achieve this.

Another way to look at the "competition" is that most are losing money for each of the EV cars sold and whether they can continue to do so to gain market share.

Don't go against the Feds. Story has been told over and over and yet market refused to listen to the moral of the story. Lucky for me my small SQQQ position (as a hedge) is still holding strong.

Waiting for the bear market to be over and for this stock to soar.

Maybe, in my lifetime. 

Well, better be safe and overshoot the targets than be sorry not able to reach the specified targets.

Is the Great United States Sale finally over?

Quick profits please.

This is probably the apple that hit Isaac Newton. He took a bite, put in some anti-gravity substance and put it back in the tree. That's why you don't see it fall much. [Tongue] 

Well, in times like this, you don't always have full control in what you want to do.

Usually, betting on the worst performing stocks can get higher than normal returns. However, some stock prices are brought down for a reason or two. Only bet on these if you can see the value and potential growth in them.

Revenues and earnings up in most cases? Where do I see that? Beating estimates does not mean the company is making money. Incomes and earnings are down, why would that signal a boom in the banking sector?