Should you continue with SIPs or STPs ?

The stock market has been on a roller coaster all year. While in the short run markets mostly overreact both ways, over a sufficiently long period of time, if the economy is growing, the broad index rises above the inflation rate.

Investors who enter the market for the short run are usually speculators. Long-term investors never time the market, but there are times when even for them, the stage looks set for either a lump sum investment or padding up their existing systematic investment plans (SIPs). Market trends we analysed and experts we spoke to confirm that such a time may indeed be now.

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