- There has been a drawdown in 100% of years, yet the average annual return has been ~10%
- The red dots are exactly why you dont invest short-term money (largest annual drawdown)
- The black bars are exactly why you invest long-term money (annual return)
- There have been more years with 25%+ returns (11) than TOTAL down years (10).
- Stocks have been down in 11 years out of 46. Or positive about 75% of the time.
- A 30% + drawdown has happened 5 times. Yet people try to predict this as if it will happen every year.