I am a beginner investor and still have much to learn about investing. Is there ever a best time to enter the stock market and what are tell-tale signs of a good time to do so?

Someone did said this before cant remember who.
Be greedy when everyone is fearful,
Be fearful when everyone is greedy.

Hi there!

It's great that you are starting to invest, i'm happy for you!

The "best time" depends on what approach to investing you take. The biggest dichotomy, in my humble opinion, would be your investing approach. Passive or Active investing. For majority of people especially if you are starting out, it may be best to go with a passive approach and DCA either into a diversified managed portfolio by unit trusts/roboinvestors or into a diversified ETF.

Only when you understand the markets more and know how to use an active apporach will you be able to determine for yourself if you should add positions to your portfolio at the current moment or not. This is not so much based on timing but valuation, market sentiment, risk and the type of assets you are interested in.

For Passive, the information on seedly and majority of financial advisory pages/instagram accounts are good. thewokesalaryman, SimpleSum, SAV Finance just to name a few...

For Active, this is where the filtering comes to play. I won't load you with too much because these are already a lot to take in and research on. Do let me know if active investing is something that interest you and you want more information... but it's not for everyone.