Are You Tired Of “Gambling” On the Stock Market? Try This Instead

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don’t let your investments turn into gambling. Don’t gamble your money away. How do you avoid that? Well, you use time and I’m going to prove it to you. We’re gonna play a little game of odds. First and foremost, I don’t gamble. Okay, I don’t. You need to look at your time horizon when it comes to anything. So what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna use the S &P 500.

We’re gonna use the S &P 500 right here. We’re gonna take a look at the odds of losing money. If you invested in the S &P 500 a month ago, uh-oh, you’re down.

You’re down. You’ve lost money. And in fact, if you pulled your money out, you went in, I pulled your money out, again, you fell into that lost money category. Your odds of losing money if you invest over a one month period of time, and we’ll just use the S &P, 38%. Your odds of making money are 62%. Still, I don’t want better than any damn casino you’re gonna go to. But, but, but, but,

Push this down the road. Let’s go a year.

Your odds of losing money, 25%. Your odds of making money, 75%. Five years.

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Losing money 11%, making money 89%. 10 years, losing money 5%. Odds of making money 95%. 15 years, 0.2%. Is your chance of losing money 99.8%, making money.

Does it really matter what the markets have done?

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