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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The markets are merely holding true to form, always rising over the long term due to a supportive economic policy environment in this country which generally encourages investment and innovation, allowing companies to grow and reward shareholders.  The S&P 500 has averaged an over 10% return since 1957, but any individual year during that period may have seen a bull or a bear market.  So, returns are not smooth or predictable over shorter periods of time, but in the long term have historically risen.  New market highs are a regular, if unpredictable, feature of long-term investing, and that's what is happening now.  That means market timing is risky, but investing steadily and consistently, as with dollar-cost-averaging, produces gains over time no matter what the markets do in the shorter term.  [/quote]

Exactly.  It’s so funny that the absolute simplest path and the one with the most historical data supporting it be the best path is controversial here.  People want to try all these crazy strategies based on political feelings when all you have to do is set up a monthly S&P 500 index fund investment and forget about it. [/quote]

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