Loss Decade

As a play off of Japan’s “Lost Decade” I wanted to show a decade long chart of the SPY (S&P500) to put things in perspective.  The point being if you are typical investor out there you have invested for the past 10 years and are still at a loss.  Typical investor being someone who is involved with the ridiculous scenario of being unable to play the short side of the market and are continuously getting duped into buying dinosaur long side mutual funds resulting in maximum kickback for their broker.  We are still in a dangerous area for these types of investors and if you are one of them (Don’t worry no one can see you) this chart should be a wake up call that you need to get control of your money and your future.  I understand that the 401k does the contribution matching, which is free money and should be taken advantage of, but you need to learn how to protect and hedge yourself.  This way you can make money no matter which way the market decides to go.  There are some older posts related to these thoughts:

http://www.nakedhedgefund.com/finance/3-ways-to-short-the-stock-market/

http://www.nakedhedgefund.com/finance/hedge-against-your-401k-2/