I’m sure the numero uno question in the minds of Indian investors at the moment is “Is this the right time to start Investing in the Stock Market”? It’s important that investors understand the fact that its impossible to predict tops and bottoms of stock markets. Investors looking to invest at market bottoms will always be disappoinbted since they will invariably miss the bottom and ensuing bull rally. History stands testimony to the fact that no investor has ever managed to pick bottoms on a consistent basis. Hence, the best startegy would be to pick fundamentally good stocks and start accumulating at every fall. Thus due to the rupee cost averaging benefit investors would be able to average down during a fall in the stock markets enabling them to keep their average cost of acquisition, low.