moneytaichi,
you've been trying to time the market, and you were right. You can do the same in Las Vegas, put your money on red or black, and you can be right or wrong. Not much difference. Now you are trying to time the market again, and you may get lucky, or not. I never got out of the market, even though I -- and pretty much everybody else on this planet -- knew that the market would go through another correction eventually. We just didn't know when, and neither did you.
I have no idea how low the market will go or when it will go up again. I have bought VTI (the ETF equivalent of VTSAX) once about every 10 days so far, everytime there was a bad day. Yes, I bought some today as well. Will the market continue to go down again tomorrow or up? If you know, kindly let me know, so that I can make some money here . . .