Why Time in the Market Beats Timing the Market Every Time
- Silivere Bakomeza
- Jun 8
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 3
Most people never build real wealth, not because they lack intelligence, but because they chase timing over time.
They try to outsmart the market. They want to skip the patience, skip the boredom, and skip the years.
But they end up skipping the returns too.
Let me show you what actually works.
What This Post Will Teach You
Why trying to time the market destroys long term wealth
How I’m building my $50 per day portfolio with zero emotions
What real time investing looks like with weekly receipts
Tools I use to stay consistent every day, not someday
The 10 Day Mistake That Destroys Decades of Growth
Everyone wants to be a genius trader.
But here’s what they don’t know:
If you missed the 10 best days in the S&P 500 over a 20 year period, your returns would be cut in half.
And those best days?
They often come right after the worst ones.
That means most people sell when it feels scary, then miss the silent recovery.
That’s not investing.
That’s gambling with a delay.
The Truth That Changed Everything for Me
Before I launched BakoInvest.com, I was chasing the hype.
Hot tips. Penny stocks. Crypto moonshots.
But then I made one radical shift:
I decided to invest $50 per day into one high conviction asset and do it publicly for 20 years straight.
That asset is MicroStrategy (MSTR).
I call it the $50 per day system and it changed the way I think about time, money, and legacy.
Week 11 Snapshot: Proof Over Promises
Here’s where I stand as of Week 11:
Total MSTR Shares: 10.86
Total Invested: $4,100
Average Cost Basis: $377.50
Market Value: $4,377.73
Portfolio Return: +$277.73 (+6.77%)
11 Straight Weeks of Discipline
Zero Missed Days, Zero Emotional Buys
100 Percent Belief in the System
Visual Proof Below
What This Taught Me About Wealth
Everyone says, “Time in the market beats timing the market.”
But most people do not believe it until it is too late.
Now I get it.
The people who win are the ones who survive the longest, not the ones who guess the fastest.
You don’t need to be early.
You need to still be here.
Why Timing Feels Smart but Fails Hard
When you try to time the market…
You second guess every dip
You chase every green candle
You panic during red weeks
You check the news instead of your conviction
And then?
You miss compound interest doing its quiet work.
You don’t build wealth by chasing perfection.
You build it by giving time enough time to work.
Perfect Timing Is a Trap
Even if you bought the absolute top in 2007 right before the crash, you’d still be up 2 to 3x by now if you held.
And if you had kept DCA’ing through the downturn?
You’d be crushing it.
Real wealth does not come from guessing bottoms.
It comes from holding through chaos and buying anyway.
Tools That Make It Easy to Stay Invested
Here are the tools I use to automate, stay consistent, and block out noise:
✅ Robinhood: Where I automate $50 per day into MSTR
✅ Acorns: Invest your spare change passively
✅ Webull : Great for portfolio comparisons
✅ Coinbase: Buy and hold Bitcoin simply
✅ Crypto.Com: Long-term crypto storage with cashback
No guesswork. No panic. No noise.
Just systems.
Why Most People Quit This Game
It’s boring.
No alerts. No “this is the top” TikToks.
No 100x overnight coins.
But boring builds billionaires.
It is the system no one wants to follow until it works.
If you want to build wealth in silence, you need a system louder than your emotions.
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What I Tell Every Beginner
If you’re new to this game:
Pick a long-term asset you believe in
Automate your investing habit
Stop watching charts
Focus on consistency, not perfection
Discipline beats dopamine every time.
One Last Reminder
If you missed this week’s best buy, don’t stress.
There will be more dips.
There will be more fear.
There will be more tests.
But the test is the path.
Invest anyway.
Final Word: This Is the Long Game
I’m 11 weeks into a 20-year public investing journey.
One asset. One system. One shot at legacy.
And I’m still here.
The market closed early this week for July 4 of 2025.
But discipline doesn’t take holidays.
Subscribe and Follow the Journey
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