That "debate" earlier led to me simulating buying $100 worth of $SPY whenever it dipped 2% day-to-day from 2006 to the end of 2009. Total positive return was **1 DAY**. Not 5+ years like when you buy a peak right BEFORE a dip, and have no long term strategy. Buying dips is a great strategy!

Why are you so upset? And what does that have to do with anything?

Wow, so hostile for nothing. I don't care for your insults or casual disregard for logic. The fact of the matter is that "sometimes it takes long time" is inherently as useful as "sometimes not so long". The point is that you can easily contrive with historic data. Look up ad hominem as well.

You're making my point - that what you said was contrived. I only shot your own contrivance back at you. Don't understand what makes you contriving so much more useful than mine but O.K.

The other point I made is the Oct 2007 is a bad example. It's a peak just before a downturn, rather than somewhere along the fall. Oct 2008 is during the downturn, and before the bottom, much more comparable to today. We are at a consensus that return time varies, meaning my point was just as useful

Are you accomplishing much with this reply? Don't understand your point, just mute if you don't care instead of complaining.

So we both contrived very well. I could probably find a point where it took 10 years to return too.

That's the point of me saying it's easy to contrive. My observation was about as useful as yours.

There wasn't a downturn in Oct 2007. If you bought in Oct '08 it only took until Aug '09 to pay off. It's easy to contrive with historic data though.