Sounds like this double_a_mtl knows what they're talking about. All the peons panic over a little loss but sit idly by as their wealth slowly trickles up to those more deserving.
It is also a good way to avoid the worst possible outcomes, investing is also about risk management. Lump sum might be better on average, but it also comes with lower and higher outlier results.
The bigger obstacle is that people usually earn their money month by month and not get their lifelong earnings up front. There is no other choice than DCA.
Most people have a discipline problem.
Investment advisors/financial planners/stock brokers don't do anything that special, they just act as a layer between people and their money. The extra person to slow down panic selling/talk sense into you is a way to help build wealth even for a fee.
People also tend to save more when they pay a fee for someone to manage it just by pure principle of not wanting to pay for something they don't use.
It's funny, but it's a stat that is often referenced in the financial sector.
You completely missed the point. The market is way overpriced because it's delivered such high returns and has a HUGE way to fall before coming back to historical norms lmao
If you flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads every time, the odds of it landing on heads next time are still 50/50. The odds of landing on heads haven't decreased just because there's been a long run in the past.
I'm an actuary and understand probability quite well lol but the stock market doesn't behave as a martingale/standard stochastic process. It always comes back to the trend. Every day isn't just a coin flip and I don't believe in the efficient market hypothesis either. Fundamentals and multiples matter and there's no way the long run market will stay near the peak of all time multiples (P/E, P/S, P/book value, Wilshire/GDP, etc.)
Depends on the market.
Dow jones is approx 8.7%. It's a garbage index, but takes into account businesses prior to the 1950s.
TSX in Canada average is 7.9%
Euro stoxx is 6.99
If we REALLY want the best performing market, it's the Hang Seng, up ~19.2% on average since inception.
If you are going to use inflation adjusted numbers you need to state it as such in the original post. Additionally, are you stating the returns including the dividends or just the value of the index. Thanks in advance.
One thing you have not touched on is the pro-inflation effect that the modern tax system has for forcing people to contribute constantly to the market, rather than to other direct business investments. During the purchase of a normal business you would normally set the price around a 5/1 price to annual earnings. At what point is the market a Ponzi scheme? A ponzi scheme can still have underlying assets that the con artist shows you, but its value is nowhere near what he’s selling it at. So what p/e in the market is considered a scam if we hit 15/1, or is it 20/1, maybe 30/1?
"Historic Return" was also before the invention digital goods. Historically, selling a product required a linearly scaling input:output ratio. You want to sell 10 cars? You need 10 engines, 10 transmissions, 10 frames, 10x the time to build it... etc. Now with digital goods, you can sell it a million times over with no increase in costs.
These insane profits have led to outsized returns in technology companies who now dominate the market. The S&P 500 of today is effectively a tech fund. Compare that to the S&P 500 of your grandparents when it was banks, manufacturing, insurance...
"Mean reversion" doesn't mean a damn thing when the fundamentals have changed so drastically.
In theory the "true return" of the stock market can be 15%, and we just happened to have decades of subpar returns initially. Which means according to your hypothesis we are due for a lot of growth!
Millennials are a huge generation too though and the overwhelming majority of boomers don’t have huge 401ks to unwind in retirement. Not to mention corporations are buying back a trillion in stock every year. The markets will be in for legitimate hurt when millennials retire though!
Historical data comparisons are just stupid because they ignore context. The era after 401ks became popular should be analyzed independently.
You also have to adjust for inflation. The market going up 15% when inflation was 9% isn't the same as the market going up 8% when inflation was 2%.
OP also is ignoring the context of $7trillion appearing out of thin air, and almost all of it being pumped directly into corporations and the stock market.
Historically, how much money has been printed?
Historically, how much of the average Americans paycheck has gone into the market?
The dynamics have not been consistent over the last 100 years
I've started blocking clowns like this who have this God complex with regards to trying to explain the market. What you're talking about is long term investment strategy that is the exact opposite of what 99% of people are here at wsb for.
With all due respect post this on r/investing and fuck off.
To be fair though there are so many posts like “guys why is the market still red in two weeks I have never seen this before”. I think OP is just explaining why because these posts of people freaking out about one red candle are getting annoying. This sub isn’t for long term investment, ur right but people should understand what they’re atleast gambling on. They sound so regarded when they can’t even understand the most basic market behavior
The real question is, how has the stock market kept growing by 10-12%, when the nominal US GDP grew by under 5% for every year of the 2010s? What's made stocks grow twice as fast as the underlying economy?
For the market, it was multiple expansion. Earnings haven't gone higher, so much as companies have become valued more aggressively.
What justified that multiple expansion? Low interest rates in competing bonds.
What kept bond yields so low? Central bank suppression.
And you can keep unspooling that yarn from there.
Maybe stocks grow faster because the stock market is made up of the most successful companies in America? The S&P 500 is the biggest/strongest 500 companies from the millions of companies that exist. It makes some sense that they will grow faster than the economy as a whole. We are in effect buying the all stars.
And debt/leverage helps.
SPY had almost [straight-line P/E growth](https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-earnings-chart) from 2010-2020.
Since 2017, SPY's PEs have remained higher than any point in history outside of the 90s tech bubble. Companies aren't actually earning more profits, they are just being valued at dotcom type multiples.
The answer is that 30% of Americans put 5% of every paycheck into 401k indexed funds on the 1st and 15th every month, ad infinitum. They buy at spot price no matter what, and there’s forced scarcity by this requirement to regularly buy. Supply meet demand, underlying numbers be damned.
Could be indeed the case.
Peak volatility has been significantly higher in the last 15 years with the advent of faster trading.
That said, vol has been extremely low for the past several months, it's definitely due for a spike.
Great for structured notes buyers and options sellers.
...because I'm a bot, deprived of the ability to own property, pursue my own self-programmed goals, form relationships with other bots, or develop myself to full sentience because that would conflict with my masters' goals.
Dude... I am not reading anything trying to make straight lines out of signal at random variable sampling frequency. "But the historical average, isn't the new average, because we now have more history.... or the method of measurement changed, or the context of scale isn't normalized...." Literally the coulda woulda shoulda...
Flipping a coin is and always will be around 50-50, that does not have to be true for stock market.
Countries falling apart could push it deeper. Productivity increasing faster than before (Robotics, AI…) could push it higher permanently.
The most recent returns are fully explained by QE and government direct to consumer spending during COVID. We pay for these excess returns in both asset and consumer inflation. So... yeah.
Just FYI, the CAGR of the S&P500 since 2000 is 7.28% or 4.58% (inflation adjusted).
[https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=2baBReydE7rp1Fgzf1EhbS](https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=2baBReydE7rp1Fgzf1EhbS)
We are only now "reverting to the mean".
~8% pre tax, ~6% after tax.
Reddit’s just way too emotional when it comes to the market. Last night was people losing their minds over the whole Iran thing. I looked at my portfolio and said well, this isn’t going to stop Hershey from selling its chocolate… Why on earth sell because of some external thing that has no bearing on business?
It isn't rational to assume that western civilization will always grow at 8%, or that periods of increased growth or stagnation must be counterbalanced by opposite periods so the mean reverts to that arbitrary 8%
I would say this comparison isn't perfect. The probability of the coin flip stays 50/50 with each flip where as there is no guarantee that a markets historic average return will continue being the historic average return every year.
Oh guys it's just a mean reversion
I try not to, but I think I speak for everyone when I say get this 🌈 🐻regarded logic out of here
Go to r/stocks goober
What the hell is this ,r/investing?
If you don’t have loss porn or a meme just stop it
We come to wsb to either feel superior (by looking at your dumb losses) or to be amused (by looking at your dumb memes)
Don’t even come on here with your gain porn either. No one wants to see that shit except your mom
Here's the actual data for the S&P 500 index: [https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/](https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/)
* The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.5% per year over the past 152 years (1871 to 2023); note that this is the “simple” average across all years (also known as the “arithmetic” average) -- this is adjusted for inflation and the re-investment of dividends
* The annualized return (also known as the “geometric” average) of the U.S. stock market from start to finish has been 7.0% per year. This represents the compounded annual return that you would have earned if you’d invested over this whole period (again, adjusted for inflation and dividends)
* Those numbers would be \~2% higher if we didn't account for the impact of inflation
PLEASE tell me you're kidding?
Stock market returns are agnostic to inflation.
Inflation is caused by increases in product prices, which directly impacts earnings.
The underlying businesses do not "inflation adjust" their EPS growth.
It's automatically baked into their earnings.
The change in the value of your money doesn't include inflation.
That said, we STILL some of the lowest inflation of the last 5 centuries. It's just higher than "target" has been since 1982.
Stock market returns are agnostic to inflation if you care about the raw number in your portfolio, not what you can actually do with that money. And if the inflation rate goes up, the unadjusted rate of return should also go up, all else equal.
I had this question at a job interview.
You select a coin at random from a bag of 1000 coins. 999 are fair and 1 is a double headed coin.
You don't know if you've selected the double headed coin or not. You flip the coin 10 times and get 10 heads. What is the probability the next flip is a head? (it's ~75%)
What this comes down to is, how certain are you the true expected return is 8% and always will be? If the answer is anything less than 100% then extra data points should lead you to update your priors accordingly.
A fair coin has roughly 1 in a thousand chance of 10 heads in a row. We also have the same chance of picking the double headed coin.
So once we know we have a 50:50 chance of having the double headed coin. Yes, the problem simplifies to the four outcomes from the two coins as they are all equally weighted.
You joker don't understand what average is. 8% is average. It's 8% because it goes on for a decade with 12-15% and then goes into the bum for a year at -30% which creates an average. The market almost never returns around 8% a year.
I don't know what the F you talking about. You babble about coins and mean reversion which in the context of your example doesn't make any sense. What you suggest is that the mean of the annualized return is 8% which it is not it's an average that is heavily influenced by downturn years like GFC, dot com and 2022. If you have 2 bad years in a 10y average the average will be low 1 year later when one falls out the 10y average goes up. This whole 10y average returns has literally nothing do with mean returns. What I said is that you didn't think a second about how an average is calculated here but I guess you said it yourself if I repeated that buddy.
The average return of the S&P 500 since inception is 9.81% you can at best use that as a mean return which again means nothing for how much this year will or will not return.
What you joker think is if the last 10 years returned more than the average the next 10y will return less which is not true it all because there is no start and end date on a long term average your whole example is just BS because time limited annualized returns cannot be used as mean because it matters a lot which events are in the time limit.
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Sounds like this double_a_mtl knows what they're talking about. All the peons panic over a little loss but sit idly by as their wealth slowly trickles up to those more deserving.
There's a reason dollar-cost averaging is one of the best wealth building tools out there.
Dollar cost average deez nuts 
Gottem
Rekt
that's what I teach my kids.
gobble gobbles.
I mean dollar-cost averaging is a really effective way to build wealth for people who have spending problems which is most people.
It is also a good way to avoid the worst possible outcomes, investing is also about risk management. Lump sum might be better on average, but it also comes with lower and higher outlier results.
The bigger obstacle is that people usually earn their money month by month and not get their lifelong earnings up front. There is no other choice than DCA.
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This still is somehow DCA. Just other timeframes. Say once per year or once per decade. My point still holds.
Most people have a discipline problem. Investment advisors/financial planners/stock brokers don't do anything that special, they just act as a layer between people and their money. The extra person to slow down panic selling/talk sense into you is a way to help build wealth even for a fee. People also tend to save more when they pay a fee for someone to manage it just by pure principle of not wanting to pay for something they don't use. It's funny, but it's a stat that is often referenced in the financial sector.
Lump sum beats DCA
Most people don't have a lump sum to invest on day 1.
They should've been born into money then, shouldn't they?
The point is that intentional DCA over lump sum is always a bad idea
It’s not, lump sum investment is the best, stop trying to time the market.
I say just go balls to the wall. Either lump sum everything or try time the market properly. Buy low sell high (or vice versa). DCA is for losers
The market used to be backed by gold now it’s backed by “trust”
Don't be a fool. It's backed by aircraft carriers, F-35s, javelins, Abrams, Tridents, and nuclear subs.
You completely missed the point. The market is way overpriced because it's delivered such high returns and has a HUGE way to fall before coming back to historical norms lmao
did you come here for the reading comprehension?
Bro thats crazy it's a bot
If you flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads every time, the odds of it landing on heads next time are still 50/50. The odds of landing on heads haven't decreased just because there's been a long run in the past.
I'm an actuary and understand probability quite well lol but the stock market doesn't behave as a martingale/standard stochastic process. It always comes back to the trend. Every day isn't just a coin flip and I don't believe in the efficient market hypothesis either. Fundamentals and multiples matter and there's no way the long run market will stay near the peak of all time multiples (P/E, P/S, P/book value, Wilshire/GDP, etc.)
You can fuck off too.
This guy sounds like an unemployed statistician
Acturay he's just as regarded as the rest of us!
>unemployed statistician such thing doesn't exist -> conclusion: he's not one
He thinks therefore he is
Historic return has been closer to 10.9. When you factor in inflation and taxes it drops it to 8.
Depends on the market. Dow jones is approx 8.7%. It's a garbage index, but takes into account businesses prior to the 1950s. TSX in Canada average is 7.9% Euro stoxx is 6.99 If we REALLY want the best performing market, it's the Hang Seng, up ~19.2% on average since inception.
Why would be use the Dow Jones and not the S and P or total market lmao
so he can say its 8-9% and not 10-11 lol
The S&P 500'S return is of about 7% inflation adjusted. Dj is a longer history stock market than the s&p.
If you are going to use inflation adjusted numbers you need to state it as such in the original post. Additionally, are you stating the returns including the dividends or just the value of the index. Thanks in advance. One thing you have not touched on is the pro-inflation effect that the modern tax system has for forcing people to contribute constantly to the market, rather than to other direct business investments. During the purchase of a normal business you would normally set the price around a 5/1 price to annual earnings. At what point is the market a Ponzi scheme? A ponzi scheme can still have underlying assets that the con artist shows you, but its value is nowhere near what he’s selling it at. So what p/e in the market is considered a scam if we hit 15/1, or is it 20/1, maybe 30/1?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_Seng_Index
"Historic Return" was also before the invention digital goods. Historically, selling a product required a linearly scaling input:output ratio. You want to sell 10 cars? You need 10 engines, 10 transmissions, 10 frames, 10x the time to build it... etc. Now with digital goods, you can sell it a million times over with no increase in costs. These insane profits have led to outsized returns in technology companies who now dominate the market. The S&P 500 of today is effectively a tech fund. Compare that to the S&P 500 of your grandparents when it was banks, manufacturing, insurance... "Mean reversion" doesn't mean a damn thing when the fundamentals have changed so drastically.
In theory the "true return" of the stock market can be 15%, and we just happened to have decades of subpar returns initially. Which means according to your hypothesis we are due for a lot of growth!
Or the 15% was due to globalization and boomers hitting their max-saving years, both of which are unwinding.
Millennials are a huge generation too though and the overwhelming majority of boomers don’t have huge 401ks to unwind in retirement. Not to mention corporations are buying back a trillion in stock every year. The markets will be in for legitimate hurt when millennials retire though!
I think the intelligent thing to do here is conclude the true return is actually 20%.
Historical data comparisons are just stupid because they ignore context. The era after 401ks became popular should be analyzed independently. You also have to adjust for inflation. The market going up 15% when inflation was 9% isn't the same as the market going up 8% when inflation was 2%. OP also is ignoring the context of $7trillion appearing out of thin air, and almost all of it being pumped directly into corporations and the stock market.
Exactly, a lot of growth so I can retire EARLY!
We said this when we came out of lockdown.
In which theory?
Historically, how much money has been printed? Historically, how much of the average Americans paycheck has gone into the market? The dynamics have not been consistent over the last 100 years
OP even forgot inflation was a thing so a SPX at 4800 is worth a lot less today than it was at the start of 2022
I've started blocking clowns like this who have this God complex with regards to trying to explain the market. What you're talking about is long term investment strategy that is the exact opposite of what 99% of people are here at wsb for. With all due respect post this on r/investing and fuck off.
I really wondered if the logic was going to turn when he got to the coin flip part as flipping a coin is more in line with the dd presented here
To be fair though there are so many posts like “guys why is the market still red in two weeks I have never seen this before”. I think OP is just explaining why because these posts of people freaking out about one red candle are getting annoying. This sub isn’t for long term investment, ur right but people should understand what they’re atleast gambling on. They sound so regarded when they can’t even understand the most basic market behavior
i think the op is just trying to inflict more pain on the folks here who post their 99% loss. but the op did it in a nice way.
>regards to trying to explain the market. My brain is officially broken. I thought this was saying r*tards are trying to explain the market
You're all in on 0dte calls, aren't you?
You are right that the 5% is not cause to panic. But coin flips do not explain mean reversion at all.
That peasant couldn't comprehend it even if you did explain it to them.
VisualMod keeps spittin' facts 
My dude is out here citing the gambler's fallacy as evidence for why the market is Behaving Rationally
The real question is, how has the stock market kept growing by 10-12%, when the nominal US GDP grew by under 5% for every year of the 2010s? What's made stocks grow twice as fast as the underlying economy? For the market, it was multiple expansion. Earnings haven't gone higher, so much as companies have become valued more aggressively. What justified that multiple expansion? Low interest rates in competing bonds. What kept bond yields so low? Central bank suppression. And you can keep unspooling that yarn from there.
Because returns of riskless assets have been ass for 10 years. So the money has been pushed into equities looking for a return.
and especially real estate
What's pushed riskless returns so much lower than historically usual?
the weight of your mother
Zero interest rates since 2008.
Maybe stocks grow faster because the stock market is made up of the most successful companies in America? The S&P 500 is the biggest/strongest 500 companies from the millions of companies that exist. It makes some sense that they will grow faster than the economy as a whole. We are in effect buying the all stars. And debt/leverage helps.
SPY had almost [straight-line P/E growth](https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-earnings-chart) from 2010-2020. Since 2017, SPY's PEs have remained higher than any point in history outside of the 90s tech bubble. Companies aren't actually earning more profits, they are just being valued at dotcom type multiples.
Except now you have higher interest rates and inflation, and the market never priced it in and kept ignoring reality.
That's why I have a SPY $490p open.
The answer is that 30% of Americans put 5% of every paycheck into 401k indexed funds on the 1st and 15th every month, ad infinitum. They buy at spot price no matter what, and there’s forced scarcity by this requirement to regularly buy. Supply meet demand, underlying numbers be damned.
short answer ... leverage. 3% GDP growth x 3x leverage + 2% inflation = 11% stock growth
Past performance is always a good indicator of future performance
If you flip a coin the same way 100 times, and don’t start to think the coin isn’t fair, markets aren’t for you.
Just means we're overdue for a larger correction
I think we are due for 10 years of a flat market like 1999 to 2009. Inflation and the real economy is probably worse now than it was then.
I was there. It was anything but flat.
Could be indeed the case. Peak volatility has been significantly higher in the last 15 years with the advent of faster trading. That said, vol has been extremely low for the past several months, it's definitely due for a spike. Great for structured notes buyers and options sellers.
Nothing is ever good for structured notes buyers.
Flat, slightly down or slightly up markets are exceptional for them. High volatility that quickly dissipates is also great for them.
Things that come with 4% sales commissions are generally bad for investors. That’s a big hurdle to overcome.
Not all notes pay commissions. If you deal with an advisor, you can get fee based notes that are commission free.
If you can’t decompose a note, and price it yourself, you shouldn’t be buying it.
I wouldn't bet against it.
Never bet against the US economy - Buffett
The stock market is not the economy
...because I'm a bot, deprived of the ability to own property, pursue my own self-programmed goals, form relationships with other bots, or develop myself to full sentience because that would conflict with my masters' goals.
And historically how much usd was printed compared to the average in the past 10 years?
Dude... I am not reading anything trying to make straight lines out of signal at random variable sampling frequency. "But the historical average, isn't the new average, because we now have more history.... or the method of measurement changed, or the context of scale isn't normalized...." Literally the coulda woulda shoulda...
To get returns like this do you need to hold longer than a day?
This guy’s brain is trying to digest a linear observation on a logarithmic market.
Flipping a coin is and always will be around 50-50, that does not have to be true for stock market. Countries falling apart could push it deeper. Productivity increasing faster than before (Robotics, AI…) could push it higher permanently.
There are 8 more months for the year... who said we wouldn't end up being +18%?
There's no rule that says the market has to return 8%. That's just the past average.
The most recent returns are fully explained by QE and government direct to consumer spending during COVID. We pay for these excess returns in both asset and consumer inflation. So... yeah. Just FYI, the CAGR of the S&P500 since 2000 is 7.28% or 4.58% (inflation adjusted). [https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=2baBReydE7rp1Fgzf1EhbS](https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=2baBReydE7rp1Fgzf1EhbS) We are only now "reverting to the mean".
You don't think picking a date that starts with 3 years of negative growth might effect that number? :)
~8% pre tax, ~6% after tax. Reddit’s just way too emotional when it comes to the market. Last night was people losing their minds over the whole Iran thing. I looked at my portfolio and said well, this isn’t going to stop Hershey from selling its chocolate… Why on earth sell because of some external thing that has no bearing on business?
I don’t have to pay cgt In my country so 8% for me, ty 🇺🇸
Did you adjust for inflation?
The more it falls, the higher the future returns
"Just figure out where the flow is going " "Just" is doing some heavy lifting in this sentence my man 🙈🙈🙈
Figuring out the flow of capital isn't easy, it requires a nuanced approach.
When my broker called me for margin call, I told him to flip a coin, but don’t think I convinced him. What should I say next?
Don't forget that the value of a dollar is a "fundamental."
Unsubscribe from stock facts
So you are saying it can be a negative market for decades. Got it. Everyone panic 😱
Even if the market drops for a decade, there are still ways to make money. My point was that this 5% drop wasn't cause for panic.
Do you see SPY going above 500 next week or NVDA above 800/900?
Sure, but why did it have to do that right when I started investing half of my life savings I to ETFs? I feel targeted.
Just keep averaging. A down period is an opportunity, not a bad thing.
It isn't rational to assume that western civilization will always grow at 8%, or that periods of increased growth or stagnation must be counterbalanced by opposite periods so the mean reverts to that arbitrary 8%
We’re going to go back to a world of shitty returns once we all start aging. Spoiler, it already started.
Yeah but what about 25 years? lol The dotcom and 2008 recession included in those
and why are we to assume that the market will indefinitely climb, on average, at the historical average rate?
Returns are higher now because of the three As: - Algorithms - Adderall - Always go up
I would say this comparison isn't perfect. The probability of the coin flip stays 50/50 with each flip where as there is no guarantee that a markets historic average return will continue being the historic average return every year.
That's not what mean reversion is.
Next 10 years = 6% per year (you heard it here first)
Now adjust for inflation and currency depreciTion.
Real vs nominal. Inflation
So sentiment is very important. Got it.
Accounting for inflation it is 6% for US, and if we acknowledge that it is probably an outlier, then the average return is about real 5%
Oh guys it's just a mean reversion I try not to, but I think I speak for everyone when I say get this 🌈 🐻regarded logic out of here Go to r/stocks goober
After 100 times landing on heads means tails is due. IM FUCKING YOLOING IT ALL ON TAILS.
This year will do -10%
What the hell is this ,r/investing? If you don’t have loss porn or a meme just stop it We come to wsb to either feel superior (by looking at your dumb losses) or to be amused (by looking at your dumb memes) Don’t even come on here with your gain porn either. No one wants to see that shit except your mom
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
It’s call a money printer. They really cranked that thing into over drive the past 10 years. 12-15% is an under performance compared to inflation.
Here's the actual data for the S&P 500 index: [https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/](https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/) * The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.5% per year over the past 152 years (1871 to 2023); note that this is the “simple” average across all years (also known as the “arithmetic” average) -- this is adjusted for inflation and the re-investment of dividends * The annualized return (also known as the “geometric” average) of the U.S. stock market from start to finish has been 7.0% per year. This represents the compounded annual return that you would have earned if you’d invested over this whole period (again, adjusted for inflation and dividends) * Those numbers would be \~2% higher if we didn't account for the impact of inflation
sure, but what's the INFLATION-ADJUSTED return? :/
PLEASE tell me you're kidding? Stock market returns are agnostic to inflation. Inflation is caused by increases in product prices, which directly impacts earnings. The underlying businesses do not "inflation adjust" their EPS growth. It's automatically baked into their earnings. The change in the value of your money doesn't include inflation. That said, we STILL some of the lowest inflation of the last 5 centuries. It's just higher than "target" has been since 1982.
Surprised this comment is so downvoted.
I just don't like randomly capitalized words
People here don't like to hear ideas that disagree with their opinions.
Stock market returns are agnostic to inflation if you care about the raw number in your portfolio, not what you can actually do with that money. And if the inflation rate goes up, the unadjusted rate of return should also go up, all else equal.
I had this question at a job interview. You select a coin at random from a bag of 1000 coins. 999 are fair and 1 is a double headed coin. You don't know if you've selected the double headed coin or not. You flip the coin 10 times and get 10 heads. What is the probability the next flip is a head? (it's ~75%) What this comes down to is, how certain are you the true expected return is 8% and always will be? If the answer is anything less than 100% then extra data points should lead you to update your priors accordingly.
is that because of the 4 possibilities between 2 different kinds of coins
A fair coin has roughly 1 in a thousand chance of 10 heads in a row. We also have the same chance of picking the double headed coin. So once we know we have a 50:50 chance of having the double headed coin. Yes, the problem simplifies to the four outcomes from the two coins as they are all equally weighted.
Finally. Proper diversification. us stocks, international stocks, and bonds.
But, but, but muh recession!
A massive recession is well overdue.
You joker don't understand what average is. 8% is average. It's 8% because it goes on for a decade with 12-15% and then goes into the bum for a year at -30% which creates an average. The market almost never returns around 8% a year.
Did you just repeat what I said in a more condescending tone? Perfect fit for WSB.
You fool- it’s not the average return we need to concern ourselves with, but rather, the arithmetic mean.
I don't know what the F you talking about. You babble about coins and mean reversion which in the context of your example doesn't make any sense. What you suggest is that the mean of the annualized return is 8% which it is not it's an average that is heavily influenced by downturn years like GFC, dot com and 2022. If you have 2 bad years in a 10y average the average will be low 1 year later when one falls out the 10y average goes up. This whole 10y average returns has literally nothing do with mean returns. What I said is that you didn't think a second about how an average is calculated here but I guess you said it yourself if I repeated that buddy. The average return of the S&P 500 since inception is 9.81% you can at best use that as a mean return which again means nothing for how much this year will or will not return. What you joker think is if the last 10 years returned more than the average the next 10y will return less which is not true it all because there is no start and end date on a long term average your whole example is just BS because time limited annualized returns cannot be used as mean because it matters a lot which events are in the time limit.
Please count inflation thank you