How You Can Crush the Market's 130% 10-Year Return

There was a nice piece on - you guessed it - CNBC earlier this week, about how an investor who bought the S&P 500 the day before they shut the doors for good at Lehman and held on 'til today would now be up more than 130% on the position, while earning about 11% a year on their stake. CNBC also points out that it was a scary trip up the mountain as the markets continued to decline for another six months after Lehman Bros tanked - call it "L-Day." Factually, they're not wrong: Those returns are what they appear to be. And the volatility was insane, with sharp countertrend rallies being crushed in short order by waves of selling. You could reasonably call a lot of that return "combat pay" for those brave enough to hang on. 130% over 10 years isn't bad... but it's still not really enough for all the risk that you took along the way. In fact, indexing rarely gives you enough return to compensate for the risks you take when investing in stocks. I know a way you could make four or five times what the S&P 500 would - with far less stress, too... Tags: trading strategies To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2018 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post How You Can Crush the Market's 130% 10-Year Return appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .