Skeeter,
You must be new to investing. Most mutual funds have a historical growth of a lump sum curve someplace. Maybe it's just in Morningstar, but often it's in their literature or prospectus.
In other words, take a sum of money, and leave it alone in a fund and see how it did. Then you can normalize it to your situation to see how you might have done in the past with a particular fund.
This is pretty much an accepted benchmark. Perhaps you need to learn a little more about investing by reading some good books.
In the past I've recommended Kirk's newsletter to very limited and select group people on this board. I think you fall into the category of people who should subscribe to Kirk's newsletter since I think he knows more than you do. I'm sure he'd be happy to teach you a thing or two about investing, timing the market, tax coupons, penny stocks, Buying large banking stocks, funds which short the long term bond market, the conversion of blue chips into penny stocks as the market drops, etc. Drop Kirk an E-mail, he's easy to find on the web. I think he can do you some good. And most of all, best of luck, my friend. |
