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Until the day you need to access the money and it isn't profitable. You obviously held no Japanese stocks in the 80's. One particular saying regarding investing after many decades sticks in my mind.ElephantBoy57 said:Thrugelmir said:Statistically, investing in equities you've a one in six possibilty that the value of your investment will fall at least 15% within a calender year.I have always chosen the riskier, but more profitable option.
"Financial disasters happen when the last person who can remember what went wrong last time has left the building. "
So so true.6
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