The Myth of the Rising Stocks over Time

[GhastMaster]

I'm follow something similar to what Kandrathe does, I look for dividend paying stocks then look at what they pay as a dividend then analyze to see how strong the company is and whether the dividend is appropriate. If it is found as such, then I grab some of the stock and hold it get the dividend and reinvest the dividends back into the stock. That way by retirement, I can have a number of dividend paying stocks taking care of most of my bills and then have things like 401k/IRA/SS to cover the rest.

That brings up a good point. My original post does not take into account dividend yields, stock splits, or buybacks. Dividends and splits would make the charts virtually useless in illustrating my point. Buybacks(which have been happening en masse) would of course add to it. It is hard to quantify these things for me, with limited resources.

And then some of us have no investments.

Indeed.

edit: preferred pronoun did not make sense