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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (18747)	4/30/2024 3:37:45 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27162

The advice has been to buy SPY as there is a good reason to look at the average of a basket of market cap weighted stocks. The newer and better advice is to buy VTI, the total US stock market which has lagged but it captured much of the gains from Tesla and others going from nothing to trillions. This only goes back to 2000 where all three have data. I tried to compare _$XVG with $XVG and got the same return with different time scales so something is weird. Dividends do matter and they compound. I never head anyone say buy the XVG as the only strategy while only owing VTI as your ONLY equity investment is something I recommend if you want to keep it VERY simple. .