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Lessons Learned With Stocks Up 60% From The Precrash High: Time In The Market

TedTed
in The Bullpen
FYI: Associated Press
U.S. stocks are having another good day, and are trading 60% higher than their value at the close of Oct. 9, 2007—the very height of the real-estate bubble and the peak from which the 2007-09 bear market began.

If you had terrible timing and bought $1,000 of the Vanguard Total Stock Market exchange-traded fund that day and did nothing other than reinvest dividends, you would have over $1,600 today. If you look at the S&P 500 index without dividends, that benchmark is up 33%.
Regards,
Ted
http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2015/02/12/lessons-learned-with-stocks-up-60-from-the-precrash-high/tab/print/?mg=blogs-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Ftotalreturn%2F2015%2F02%2F12%2Flessons-learned-with-stocks-up-60-from-the-precrash-high%2Ftab%2Fprint&fpid=2,121
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