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Is now the time to buy?

I've got £1500 left on my ISA limit this year - should I stuff all of it in now on the FTSE 100 (on the assumption that we're at or near "the bottom", or drip feed the money in over the next few months?

Alternatively, I could put it all in a sock under the bed...

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  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Buy some silver instead....

    or garlic.....
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Whatever the market. Drip feed.

    Suggest you invest in a decent yielding global fund. FTSE is now highly concentrated in a few industrial sectors.
  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Whatever the market. Drip feed.

    Suggest you invest in a decent yielding global fund. FTSE is now highly concentrated in a few industrial sectors.
    I've got an ISA that tracks a variety of global indices - however I have been monitoring them all for the last few months, and they've all been doing as badly as each other. When one goes down they all go down, and when one goes up they all go up. I have yet to see any real distinction between them, hence my inclination for investing in the FTSE, which has the lowest fees.
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