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Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by liugiul on Sunday March 15, 2015 @12:43PM (#9207086)
What if you start investing in a bad year then?
Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by EliRivers on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:02PM (#9207166)
If you invested only at the peaks, right before crashes?

Still works out great.

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/worlds-worst-market-timer/

Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by dxhdr on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:12PM (#9207185)
http://www.acting-man.com/blog/media/2014/10/2-Nikkei-Long-t...

Yes we're talking about the S&P500 but I'd like to point out that this isn't a general rule of markets; past performance does not guarantee future results. The S&P500 was at around 60 in 1960 and near 2000 today. It doesn't matter when you bought or at what intervals, money invested has performed well.

Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by mortenjorck on Sunday March 15, 2015 @02:54PM (#9207574)
Wow, that is a fantastic article and thought experiment. It certainly eased a bit of my own insecurity about investing "at the wrong time."
Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by WalterBright on Sunday March 15, 2015 @02:51PM (#9207558)
> If you invested only at the peaks, right before crashes?

That's my patented investment strategy!

Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by pbowyer on Sunday March 15, 2015 @04:54PM (#9208077)
You're putting lots into the market this year then, I trust!
Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by WalterBright on Sunday March 15, 2015 @05:58PM (#9208360)
Absolutely!

Chart any stock, and find it's high point. That's where I bought it.

Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by brianmcc on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:47AM (#9211077)
Please subscribe me to your "buying today" newsletter !
Re:How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero by walshemj on Sunday March 15, 2015 @02:46PM (#9207528)
You are buying more for you money its called dollar/pound cost averaging