I’m able to admit with all the dips and speculation, that I don’t know what the heck I’m doing

I have been trying to “read” the market and plan when to buy and when to trade etc, and I mess it up just about every time lmao . I speculated that the market would drop a ton the other day with everglade and it went up that day, I Thought the dip the other day was bottomed out and it went down a down a bunch the next damn day. I’m just guessing at best here and not even pretending that I’m not. I do tons of research so it’s not just throwing money without looking into it, maybe I’m just not meant to try and ply the market so I’m going to just DCA and hold them til the market comes back around . I only put in a small amount each paycheque so it’s not a risk I can’t afford but I definitely need to take the emotion out of it and stop trying to get the better if the market