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.

Support and resistance levels are subjective depending on how you draw the lines. 164 does not look like a strong support/resistance level no matter how I read the charts. Prefer to look at the 10s for support and resistance, aka 150, 160, 170 where the options strike prices are at.

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.

Freedom of speech is definitely important, as long as you are responsible for what you say or relay what others have said. There is also freedom of listening and freedom of understanding. You are responsible for your own actions after.

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

Wait to see if there is another burst of crypto coin bubble.

Maybe, in my lifetime. 

Is the Great United States Sale finally over?

It all depends on your scope of investment and whether you think the market is overheated. If you think it is overheated, it might be good to take some profit off and wait for a better opportunity.

In human controlled driving, when two approaching cars come into collision course, one human chickens out and avoid crash. In auto driving, none chickens out. [Grin] 

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.