Comments on: Stay The (Very Long Term) Course http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html Freshly squeezed market commentary & analysis Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:54:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Babak http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34624 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:45:49 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34624 Russ, exactly. There are long bouts when you are much better off in commodities, real estate, bonds, or in foreign stocks. Russ, exactly. There are long bouts when you are much better off in commodities, real estate, bonds, or in foreign stocks.

]]> by: market folly http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34622 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:37:59 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34622 good stuff thanks for posting again. kept forgetting where i'd seen this in the past. good stuff thanks for posting again. kept forgetting where i’d seen this in the past.

]]> by: Russ Abbott http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34621 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:40:14 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/stay-the-very-long-term-course-1793.html#comment-34621 Interesting graph. Another moral one can draw is that most of the time the market does nothing. Eyeballing it, these are flat periods. 1871 - 1895 = 24 years 1899 - 1941 = 42 years 1960 - 1980 = 20 years 2001 - 2008 = 7 years ---------- 93 So of the 137 or so years from 1871 to now, 93 of them were net flat leaving 42 as profitable periods. -- Russ Interesting graph. Another moral one can draw is that most of the time the market does nothing. Eyeballing it, these are flat periods.

1871 - 1895 = 24 years
1899 - 1941 = 42 years
1960 - 1980 = 20 years
2001 - 2008 = 7 years
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93

So of the 137 or so years from 1871 to now, 93 of them were net flat leaving 42 as profitable periods.

– Russ

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