I liked how you touched on a number of areas, bull/bear/flat, etc. as well as the very last thing, the 4 or 5 methods to approach things, and as in this blog post, clearly, the risk of Politics…. so sadly ingnored by US investors who enjoy only a every 4 or 8 year period of mass insanity… and it’s generally bloodless.

As I read the chart, and your book, please define the “range” we are in?

As to the range, are we talking from 2000, or ? I’ve finished reading your book, and again, my limited understanding — seems like you discount the Great Depression, 1929-1934(ish) as being a guide or normal. Ken Fisher does the same thing, so you are in good company.

As a contrarian & an investor, I’d still like to see successful investments — greater than the market returns, etc. and didn’t feel like I got examples from your book 2006/2007 — perhaps on purpose — that I could be buying now.

The biggest thing I have realized was I did the right thing in selling, for a profit, for reasons that made sense. After 9/11, I bought a mutual fund [today I'd buy an ETF] in Aerospace (thinking likely would go up after the military orders came out, planning from day one to sell it about 2 years later, or when it was profitable enough. It had dropped after the news, and I held it for two years, until it doubled, and I moved it into real estate, selling that, etc.

As you point out in your book, the human emotion side of the house however, can really grab one.

Passive indexing is sold (was sold) as easy, “safe,” etc. but practically, with 401k, etc. there are few other games in the house for the typical person.

How you you measure your success?