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Strategies & Market Trends : 50% Gains Investing
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To: bruwin who wrote (117830)2/4/2014 6:45:06 PM
From: ElroyRead Replies (1) of 118717
 
So if one followed the lead of the 'old' Warren Buffett and did what he usually did, when the market was "fearful", and invested around the time when the S&P 500 Index was at around, say, 780 in March/April of 2009, one's current compounded Annual Rate of Return would be



This theory sounds great, but most people who invest in the market are generally invested to a level of their available capital that suits them. So when the market plunges 50% and people are fearful, where is this magical new capital to come from? In other words, if I have 80% of my savings in the market for years and years, and then the market plunges 50%, where do I get the new capital to "double down"?
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