Time…Your Most Important Asset!

Chris emphasizes the critical role of time in building wealth through investing. Using historical data and the power of compounding, he busts the myth of stock market gambling and explains why patience is the ultimate strategy for long-term success. Whether it's a 1-year or 15-year horizon, Markowski breaks down the odds of success to prove that staying invested is the winning move. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact that we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Your most important asset, most important asset when it comes
to your portfolio time time. I actually wrote about this.
This is going back in the nineteen nineties on the
earlier columns of mine. You're going to make more money

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spending time in the market than trying to time the market.
We're going to play a little game because you know,
it drives me out some people. It's a good start
markets gambling, and then you'll hear them, you know, commercials
on the radio, people trying to sell gold coins or
something like that. We'll do that. Oh wait, we'll do

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investing gambling. Odds time horizon United States stocks represented by
the S and P five hundred and the US Large
Cap Index. Odds of losing money. If your time horizon
is one month, your odds of losing money thirty eight percent,

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thirty eight percent, odds of making money sixty two percent.
It's better than vegas one year. If your time horizon
is one year, your odds of losing money twenty five percent,
odds of making money seventy five percent. Five years, odds

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of losing money eleven percent, odds of making money eighty
nine percent. Ten years, odds of losing money five percent.
Odds of making money ninety five percent. Will go out
on a fifteen year timeframe. The odds of losing money

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point two percent, point two percent. Your odds of making
money ninety nine point eight percent. Again, let time work
its magic, Let compounding do its thing. You will get wealthy.

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