Buying on Dips Pays Most in Five Years as Stocks Rebound
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Not since the bull market began has buying dips in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index been a surer way of making money.
Declines in the benchmark gauge for American equity are lasting an average of 1.5 days in 2014, the shortest since at least 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Starting last year, returns on days after the index fell have averaged 0.13 percent, the highest since they were 0.38 percent in 2009.