Best Advice Ever During a Market Crash by John Bogle’s Words!

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Steve Floyd wants to know, if the 
US stock market suddenly went into  

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an unexpected broad market decline of 
greater than 25%, and still heading south,  

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what would you tell us to help us stay the 
course? Well, the first thing I’d say was,  

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who the heck knows whether it’s still heading 
south? It may have stopped going down at 25%.

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And a lot of them do start to stop 
on the 20 25% range. But, you know,  

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it’s an opportunity to buy more. And certainly, 
you know, there are a lot of funny ways of,  

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very hard to give advice on these kind 
of thing. But the one piece of advice I  

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would categorically give everybody, for God’s 
sake, don’t stop program of regular investing.

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But as the market goes down, you’re killing 
the whole value of dollar cost averaging,  

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and it may go down for a few more 
years. Who really knows? But so,  

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so much the better when you’re putting 
money every month, because it will come  

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back. I think we’re in a little dangerous 
territory now and then, as I tell people.

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But. And the 25% drop, 35% drop is easily 
possible. It’s always possible just because  

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markets are markets. So I think the 
questioner is right to say, you know,  

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what should I do? And I guess the answer generally 
is, don’t do something, just stand there.