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10 numbers every investor should know by heart:
6.9%
Real annualised return of stocks over 200 years. After inflation.
72
Divide by your return rate = years to double your money.
At 8%: 9 years. At 12%: 6 years.
40%
Of your total long-term stock return comes from reinvested dividends.
Spend them instead and you burn 40% of your compounding engine.
2%
Average annual inflation.
Over 30 years it cuts your cash’s purchasing power in half.
Over 50 years it destroys 73% of it.
10
The number of best trading days per year.
Miss them over 20 years and you lose half your returns.
Most fell during bear markets.
0.98
Correlation between S&P 500 and earnings growth over 30 years.
In the short term, sentiment rules.
In the long term, fundamentals always win.
4%
Safe withdrawal rate in retirement.
Historically lasts 30+ years without running out.
−14%
Average intra-year drawdown of the S&P 500.
Every year. Normal. Expected. Ignore it.
+36.4%
Average S&P 500 return in the 12 months after a midterm election year bottom.
The most reliable seasonal pattern in markets.
100%
Percentage of 20-year rolling periods that delivered positive real returns.
Every single one. In 150 years of data.
Save these.
They are worth more than most financial advice you will ever pay for.
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Now, Class, repeat after me. I will never buy cyclicals at low PEs and record earnings. Say it again. I will never buy cyclicals at low PEs and record earnings.
@marekmalina_ Co se týče akciového trhu, tak by se to o Číně tvrdit dalo. V oblasti kvality AI modelů to ale úplně neplatí. Doporučuji https://t.co/E3K5ChUH92