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Since 1950, the S&P 500 has never had a negative total return over any 20-year holding period.
Average bull market: 6.6 years, +339% cumulative. Average bear: 1.3 years, -36%.
72 ÷ annual return ≈ years to double. At 10% you double in ~7.2 years.
Since 1980 the S&P 500 has had an intra-year drop of 10%+ in most years — yet finished positive in roughly 75% of them.
Average time to recover from a crash: ~2.5 years. The 1929 crash took 25 years to fully recover.
Feb-Mar 2020 (COVID): just 33 days from peak to trough.
Just ~4% of US stocks account for essentially 100% of net stock market wealth created since 1926.
The top 10 names in the S&P 500 now represent roughly a third of the index by weight.
Dividend payers have beaten non-payers by ~2% per year over the last 90 years.
~70% of active day traders lose money; only ~1% are consistently profitable over five years.
Over 15 years, only ~15% of actively managed US funds beat their benchmark net of fees.
Roughly 90% of US equity trading volume is now executed by algorithms.