35 years is a long time, twice of it makes a person already in their senior years. Most likely, in their 80-90s (if they still stick around) since most of us do not start investing at age 1.
I was 18 years old had I invested in the stock market, especially HSI. Looking at the chart and the two recent fall out from the bullish trend (on hindsight) , I will still be up 948% had I hold so long , 35 years later .........
Of course, had I been exposed to the US market and equally started investing in 1987, my returns would be 1828% , near double of the HSI returns. WOW. WOW. WOW
Let's not go into the individual stock pick where returns can be in the 5-6 figures like Apple (117056%), 3884% (Macdonald),500% (XAUUSD), 3047% (PG), etc
So you see, investing is not rocket science and you need not spend endless nights analysing stocks and market leaders like some of these companies I mentioned cannot even beat the SPX index, with few exceptions.
In short, I would still invest in both of these two indices, one with solid track record (SPX) and another sorely undervalued and with most negative news out of the way and China shoring up on stimulus programs to prop up the stock markets, it is a matter of time we start to see the index returning to its glorious days again.
Ride the trend while it last........
I was 18 years old had I invested in the stock market, especially HSI. Looking at the chart and the two recent fall out from the bullish trend (on hindsight) , I will still be up 948% had I hold so long , 35 years later .........
Of course, had I been exposed to the US market and equally started investing in 1987, my returns would be 1828% , near double of the HSI returns. WOW. WOW. WOW
Let's not go into the individual stock pick where returns can be in the 5-6 figures like Apple (117056%), 3884% (Macdonald),500% (XAUUSD), 3047% (PG), etc
So you see, investing is not rocket science and you need not spend endless nights analysing stocks and market leaders like some of these companies I mentioned cannot even beat the SPX index, with few exceptions.
In short, I would still invest in both of these two indices, one with solid track record (SPX) and another sorely undervalued and with most negative news out of the way and China shoring up on stimulus programs to prop up the stock markets, it is a matter of time we start to see the index returning to its glorious days again.
Ride the trend while it last........