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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by albert_e on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:00PM (#34278397)
if I invest for say 10 years with a conditional exit/hold strategy at tne end (i book profit and exit if I am in green, or decided to wait up to 5 more years till i turn green / with a minimum threshold) ...would that flexibility in investing strategy bump up my annualized returns (and presumably significantly reduce negative returns)?
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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by getToTheChopin on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:29PM (#34278802)
You can run a back-test on that type of strategy using the underlying data from the linked post: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hacdyPFJtLMybJrf4CwF...

Edit: typo

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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by pc86 on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:06PM (#34278488)
This doesn't sound like something you can know without back-testing that assumption (which is fairly easy).
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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by kqr on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:13PM (#34282029)
This sounds at its core like a "wait until I've made my money back" strategy. And yes, per definition you're guaranteed to make your money back if you follow it.

It's not E log X-optimal though.

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