Regular SIP or trigger SIP, what is right for you? Gautam Kalia answers

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Gautam Kalia, Head-Super Investor, Sharekhan By BNP Paribas, says “investors who have spent some time in the market and who have got a certain amount of experience consider trigger SIPs to enhance their SIP returns. Also most of these investors have a large lump sum amount. So when you have a large lump sum amount but you are not extremely comfortable with current market valuations and then you want to move that money in a staggered form back into the market that is really when trigger SIPs work wonders for investors.”

The rule of SIP is to never stop it if you want to really make the most of your investment in mutual funds via SIPs. Markets are always going to be volatile, but then discipline is the key ingredient to having a great corpus and maybe even to get the power of compounding activated. In what way do you think it is a bad financial call to stop your SIP?
The easiest way to explain it is you go to a shop regularly to buy clothes and you go to the same shop one day to shop and you realise that things are on sale and that is the one day you decide not to buy because things are on sale and really that is how you need to view the market as a long term SIP investor.

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When the market is going down, obviously you are seeing your portfolio value come down and you think you are doing something smart by not putting in more money, but really what you are doing is buying the same market at a cheaper value. So, you are taking advantage of other people's fear and you are