Below is a chart that shows the historic returns, adjusted for inflation, for the UK market for the last 200 years. It speaks for itself. It looks like a bell curve which shows the highest probable return for the stock market is -2% to +4%. If your 401k is long heavily in stocks based on common wisdom of this age, you may be betting that the 1 in 15 chance on the very right edge of the graph will happen again.
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Here is Prechter talking about the current crash (2008-2009-2010-2011 and perhaps 2012 according to Kontradiev Cycle) and closing his initial short position:
Note that Prechter was bullish from early March to August 2009 and in August he recommended adding short positions. By December 2009, he was 200% short. You can subscribe to Prechter’s market forecasting service here:
