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@simon84 Poor example. If you dollar cost average that $150,000 over that time, the ROI would be much less. If we're making stuff up, why not visualize April 2009 to 2023? How about April 2022 to now? In 2013, the market was just starting a bull run to account for a lost decade and...

@foreverintrovert The avg market performance is not necessarily the way to go. The comment was that investing in the avg market in 2013 led to 3x gains! "Woo hoo. Proven right" It's bs. Investing $10k in 2002 would have made practically a few % in 10y yrs by 2012. OP is cherry picking a date...

@janggeungulk My opinions are that no one can pick an arbitrary date and make general assumptions from it like it's fact. Commenting that "if I invested in 20xx" the returns are 4x, so it only makes sense to invest in the stock market indexes" is fallacy bc he/she picked a time when the market...

@janggeungulk Value of $1 in 2000. Value of $1 in 2023. Market change in the last 23 years. About the same as inflation? Or much much more? Now, the market may have over shot in 2022, so let's use 2025 as the date if the market stays relatively flat for the next 3 years. Hard to use...

@marlinkingsley Not 100% true. The index is only good to keep up with inflation. If you dollar cost average that $150,000 over that time, the ROI would be much less. No different in 15 years. The market (S&P) will be 3x from here due to inflation. However, I bet putting money in MSFT, AAPL...