Everyone wants to talk about history as if it's a good indicator of the future: but every moment in history happens only once. If you expect to make the same r

Everyone wants to talk about history as if it's a good indicator of the future: but every moment in history happens only once. If you expect to make the same returns in 2 years that a past stock market investor would get in 20, you probably should expect to survive as many market crashes as he did, just on a shorter time frame. There is no free lunch, you pay for high returns with high volatility.