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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1265869, member: 26302&quot;]But you can make that statement. A basket of stocks like the S&amp;P 500 can be compared to other investments. True, you cannot buy a stock in 1950 and just let it ride. If you wish to mimic the S&amp;P 500 you have to buy a fund or make the changes the index makes. However, a basket of stocks like that has outperformed other investments in the long term. Can you pick and choose timeframes where it didn&#039;t? Yeah, of course, but most unbiased observers looking at the data will conclude it returns higher. However, two caveats. One, it is more risky so it should return higher. Two, its not as much higher as you think once you adjust for biases and mathematical errors. The mat errors I won&#039;t get into since its pretty boring, its just most comparisons do not use the correct math.</p><p><br /></p><p>I for one alwsays thougth stocks were oversold in comparison to many other asset types, including PM. I don&#039;t know the financial market got so into stocks to the exclusion of other financial products like bonds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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