Stocks & Shares tracker ISA Longer term

mustachio

But if you double down on it and are defensive and say 'no it's not poor investing it's clearly the best way to have invested for the last 100 years' then you could expect that the wiser heads on the forum would point out the flaws in the logic .  Not because they think you personally have no right to hold your views, but because they would not want newbie investors to be suckered in by such posts and the US-centric blogs they find online and think it was actually a recommended way for a normal person to invest.

I take what you are saying though I haven't said it's the best way to invest for the last 100 years (as if )....it is far from that though it has proved to be a pretty consistent and safe one overall with time. As with any investment it has highs and lows and you quite rightly point a low out and similarly there was a 100% gain from March 2008 to April 2010. It is the nature of the beast.

My outlook is longer term (i.e. 10 years plus). Maybe other people have a shorter-term approach? If so this will be more susceptible to highs and lows.  Maybe the history of the S & P 500 is wrong and it will not be a good investment going forward. The person that knows the answers to that is probably hijacking another thread on this forum.