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human
Why don't people just pull out of the market when the yield curve inverts?

The 3-month-10 year yield curve inverted for what a week or so before going above water again? I've seen the argument's that this time is different but regardless it's not a positive sign. Why don't people exit the market when this happens for a sustained period and keep their assets as cash or, if you are an eccentric libertarian, gold? They could always reenter the market after the bottom falls out.

For instance if you have these two rules- you will withdraw from investment positions after a full quarter of yield curve inversion, and you will reenter after three quarters of sustained positive growth based on the S&P 500 perhaps- then you would be out of the market \~Nov 1999-Jan 2004 and \~Aug 2007-Dec 2009 I reason this would net you more returns in the long run and would mean that if you needed access to those funds during a recession, you would not be taking a loss.
gpt
The market averages an increase of 20% between the inversion of the yield curve and the start of the recession AND no one can predict when the recession is truly over and the recovery starts.

To time the market correctly, you need to both pick the right time to exit AND the right time to go back in. Even if you exit today, there's no guarantee that even with the drop it will come out to lower than today - and it's entirely possible you'll miss the bottom and end up having to buy again at higher than today's prices.