Staying Invested: Missing the Best Days (chart)

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Key Takeaways:

• Staying invested is a key principle of long-term financial success.
• This chart shows the impact of missing the best market days over the past 25 years.
• Staying invested through ups and downs can make a significant difference in final investment outcomes.

Methodology:

• This chart shows the value of an initial investment of $1,000 using S&P 500 price returns before transaction costs under varying scenarios. Each scenario assumes that $1,000 was invested 25 years ago and remained fully invested or was moved to cash during the best market days.

Date Range: 25 years ago to present

Source: Clearnomics, Standard & Poor's