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Investing is the most important thing you can do to reliably build wealth during your life. The only problem is… you inevitably suck at it…
The S&P 500 has a historical average return of 10.4% over the past 100 years, even when including all the major stock market downturns during that time. $10,000 invested in 1972 would be worth $1.7 Million today. But look around, and you will be hard pressed to find anybody who has made themselves wealthy EXCLUSIVELY through diligent investing practices.
Research done by Dalbar Inc an investment research firm found that the average equity fund investor only made average annualized returns of 4.25% over the past 20 years. To understand how big a difference this truly is, the same investor getting those returns would only turn their initial $10,000 investment into $83,000 today over the same 50 year period.People are terrible at investing, YOU are terrible at investing, and even finance industry professionals are buy and large… terrible at investing.
The only real solution is to stop trying.
#Investing #PersonalFinance #HowMoneyWorks
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Diverse mutual funds are about the only thing I agree with Dave Ramsey on.
If I learned anything during my 54 credit hour MBA it was that I wasn't smart enough to beat an index fund.😊
Thanks again
He basically hit on exactly what i do. Invest in the S&P with a dividend paying index fund. I put it on autopilot to depost money every paycheck. when everyone is freaking out about the market tanking I just smile and say good, that means i can buy more shares for less money.
Give a chimpanzee a $100,000 and some blue chips and he will become a millionaire while eating bananas and throwing poop.
11:10 Invest for the "log" term?
i suck at investing? Sure 2021 i was super greedy and bought a bunch of 0 profit stocks that went down 99% i knew nothing about the market and had 0 experience. Now i have learned from all the misstakes and my portfolio has gone up 22% so far this year.
What you need is to read accounting research and university level math.
Worth mentioning the equity growth from 1960-2020 is an absurd aberration and is NOT normal. Don't use it as a barometer for the future.
Invest in log term??
Jesus this commend section is full of bots, they don't even try, all their names are surnamenameXXXX with X being numbers
Careful folks, the neames they promote are scams!
But what if I’m not?
Bold of you to assume I’m not beating the S&P 500 consistently.
This was a complete waste of 5 minutes. Wow.
Im actually doing well, just wished i had more to invest
What does invest broadly means?
just buy index bros
Dividends are irrelevant, though, what the lucky guy missed was price appriciation while waiting for timing the market, not dividends.
The S&P has a great "average" over time, that didn't help the folks who were in during the Great Depression years when the market was tracking lower by double digits and it took decades to recover. Point being buy and hold and dollar cost averaging work well in a rising market, not so good in an extended falling market.
The best move for most today is as you say, do dollar cost averaging by continuous periodic investing and pray there's not another great market crash.
Buy everything, hold it forever.
Footnoting the Mr. Consistent example: Dividends help, but over a long timeline it’s going to be close no matter what, because whenever it is that you invested in that first year, you’d stay invested for all subsequent years.
To use a more dramatic example let’s say you bought Microsoft at some point in 2015. Depending on your timing you would have gotten in somewhere between $40 and $57. As of this writing it’s trading around $370. Granted that’s a 40% difference in entry price, so you could be sitting on anywhere from a 550% to 825% gain. Still, you’re in great shape no matter what because you were there for all of 2016, 2017, 2018…
I just donate to wallstreet 😂
i like your channel, but I absolutely hate what it does to my recommended feed.
True! Getting a head start by beginning to invest early is the most effective way to build wealth, with investment taking precedence. I've learned from last year's experience that starting early allowed me to create a better life through early investments this time around.
Sorry to point out that the rate called market average is pure nonsense. The only way to do that would be to know exactly when sell a company and reinvest into something else. Otherwise whatever you had invested in bankrupt companies is lost.. This is because of survivorship bias. The 4% made by the average investor is the real rate of return.
You don't know me
You have completely omitted from consideration the fact that (at least, in the United States), from the 1980s onward (into 2023, present writing), dividends have played an ever smaller role in total stock-market returns.
Its always funny to me when people think theyre engaging in some kind of highly intellectual activity by throwing money at the stock market. Buddy you are not going to make it big because you read 20 pages from warren buffet's book before getting bored. You are engaging in high stakes gambling. You are fundamentally no different from the guy who blows his life savings at a casino
11:10
"Invest for the Log term"
Why not just take the 10%
Step 1: don’t trade options.
Step 2: don’t forget rule #1.
Nobody cares about having a million dollars at 65 years old. I want to be rich now.
I love this. 🤤
Don't cut yourself short by hiding in Bonds or Cash. You can find a diverse set of Equities to take advantage of a market that rises 75% of the time. You can find them on your own without an Advisor or Money Manager that is just trying to look 'active' while charging you fees. Use data from Macro Trends, Guru Focus and Morning Star. All free — you just need to take time a do the homework. Don't be scared-off from investing in a diverse set of Quality Equities (stocks to own long-term) by people that are blinded by Indexes and ETFs. You can do it.
So, you are saying that no matter how you invest in the Stock Market, you win? Which isn't surprising since the Stock market was built by the wealthy for the wealthy.
Can’t tell who’s a bot and who’s not anymore because no the comments section.
Total noise!
One time on an expat page I saw someone say “the market isn’t down the stocks are just on sale” and now idc if my IRA looks slightly smaller sometimes lol
Then im a lazy manchild who is an incel then according to bill maher and fox news. The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth | Belief It Or Not
I just like your tone and honesty. Shitting on peoples dreams 😂.
Just take Buffet's advice and put everything you can spare into a good index fund or two, starting as early as possible. The fees are low, it requires no brains, the diversified nature of the fund protects you against any given company going under, and by the time you retire, compound interest will have made you a ton more money. This is what I've done, and it's worked very well for me so far.
This is why I automated my investing to coinside with my paychecks. That way, I can spend more time in the market as soon as I have the money to play.
A summary of a couple of Peter Lynch's books would basically be: individual investors can beat institutional investors because institutional investors have a lot of pressures on them that individuals don't.
It's not that I'm smarter than any given Ivy League fund manager – I just don't have investors calling me demanding an exit at the bottom of a market.
Granted, I still don't know what I'm doing, so I just use an indexed fund, but what Peter Lynch says makes sense to me.
You convinced me! I'm buying $30K worth of qqq today at all time highs @427. Goodbye to my loser ways, and I feel good about making some money at last.
Your thumbnaiss and titles are so damn discouraging
In my opinion, investors ought to prioritize under-the-radar stocks, especially given the volatile nature of today's stock market. With 35% of my $270k portfolio tied up in declining stocks that were once highly regarded, I'm feeling lost and unsure about how to proceed amidst this turmoil.
I`m sorry but mathematically the main argument can't make sense. People on average can't do worse than the people do on average. The market average is not the same as the average, sure, but still, if a lot of people are losing to the average, a lot of people must be winning, as well.
If 90% is losing to the market, who's winning? The market = everyone.
That only applies to US stock market. Chinese market did not rise for the last 20 years 😂