Markets have lived through wars, recessions, political shocks, financial crises, pandemics and countless moments that felt like “the end.” Yet the long-term trend tells a very different story. 📈 $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 in 1970 grew to roughly $3.9 million over the period shown. The average annual total return: 11.13%. The lesson isn’t that markets move straight up. They don’t. It’s that some of the best long-term returns have come from staying invested through periods of extreme uncertainty. Time in the market has historically mattered far more than predicting the next crisis.
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Richard Verhaeghe@ravonar · 3h
$ADX formed 1929, survived the Great Depression, The Second World War, the Korean War, the Cold War, every oil crisis, inflationary crisis, economic crisis for almost 100 years. $ADX
