Who realistically keeps hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars sitting around in liquid cash waiting for a market dip? Alternatively, who is going to go and sell off a house or other large capital value item, and be able to find a buyer right now, so that they can similarly buy the dip?If you had liquid cash. This is where millionaires are made in the market. Warren Buffett says. When it rains , don’t go outside with a thimble , go outside with a bucket.
Gotta look at it as a excellent buying opportunity
Berkswhire Hathaway may. A giant bank or fund may. I really doubt any non-hundreds of millionaires or giant companies are sitting around with liquid assets that they can use to do that. A normal individual can't sell off their 401k to get cash to then buy more stocks for their 401k. They maybe can sell off all their bond funds and switch it all to stocks, but if that goes sideways they're screwed too.
Not meaning that combative to your specific point, but I don't see how realistically laymen or even quite rich people can realistically do something to make money on a dip like this. Even fiscally prudent people aren't going to be able to do that, because if they were prudent they wouldn't have cash sitting around not gaining money.
The more realistic plan seems to be what @JVU is saying, and recalculate how your ability to spend is jacked for a long time, and think through ways to cut costs.