Timeline for Why do people claim that it's hard to outperform the S&P 500? It has only increased in value by ~1.5x in the past 5 years
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| Jan 4, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | Fattie | fantastic anecdote there, shoover! | |
| Jan 4, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | shoover | @Fattie Count me as one of those who dumped AAPL in the early 2000s, after six or eight years of being underwater with it and finally seeing it crawl its way back up to almost even. It appears to be up about 500x since then. I also got sucked into buying GE, EK, and GM in the late 1990s. Nowadays I just buy index funds and am happy with my +8 to 16% per year gain. | |
| Jan 4, 2021 at 12:31 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 23:04 | history | edited | BrenBarn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Flux | The "flat" part of the price chart from 1981 to 2000 isn't really flat. I think you should have used a logarithmic price scale instead of a linear price scale. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 19:05 | comment | added | Fattie | @TannerSwett !!! I had a second to review your concerns (screw my clients!) Pls. review. The "Apple tragedy", along with the "Tulip mania", and a recent one where Buffet is revealed as "utterly, completely, useless, got lucky once", is one of the handful of basic Cautionary Tales from investing. It's ironic that it's the very example our OP gave ... | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 19:03 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2020 at 13:16 | comment | added | Fattie | "If you pay attention to your investments every year you don't have this problem." unfortunately that doesn't work at all. Talking of Apple, everyone who was looking after their investments dumped Apple in the early 2000s - just before it began the single biggest wealth-making run, ever, of any financial instrument. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 13:05 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | I still can only guess what your chart is trying to say. Looking at the chart, I think that the dark green area is the price and the white striped area is probably volume. But in that case, the chart is clearly showing that the price went up about 10% over that 20-year period, whereas the text below says the price actually tripled. So then I'm guessing that the white striped area is probably the price, but then what's the dark green area? I can only make wild guesses. I find it very confusing. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 23:56 | comment | added | Flux | Can you label the vertical axis on the price chart? I don't know what I am looking at. What are the light green, dark green, grey, and white areas? | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 22:26 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 21:22 | comment | added | nanoman | The AAPL chart is misleading because the bottom of the scale is well below zero, making the price appear flat when it actually went up 2-3x over the 20 years -- not great, but not flat. It seems you cropped the scale but it should be included. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 21:16 | comment | added | user12515 | actually i was around 5 years ago and the FAANG stocks were the "hot" thing back then too. I remember at the time lamenting that the hottest stocks seemed to simultaneously be the least prudent to invest in due to their big run, while simultaneously the the most widely invested in and well known and considered likely to do well in the future! | |
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 18:29 | comment | added | Joe | There's a lot of good information in this answer, but there's also a lot of attitude that's really not necessary for someone asking a question and trying to improve their understanding of the market. | |
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 11:32 | history | answered | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |