sit tight
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Maybe the best thing for you to do is to just sit tight until SpaceX has a trading history.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
"Originally we thought 'Well, that seems expensive, let's sit tight for five minutes and see what happens'," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
The message to her is that if there isn’t anything good out there to buy, investors should just sit tight and be patient— such as bide time in T-bills.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025
Now, he said he knows to sit tight through market downturns, and the value of his portfolio has grown to five figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
“Then right now we’ll just have to sit tight and hope for the best,” Alyssa affirms for herself.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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