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Chart of the Day: Possibility of Loss

Crews Bank & Trust Wealth Management Services Oct 30, 2025
Bar graph illustrating the probability of negative stock returns based on the S&P 500 total returns from 1929 to present, in various lengths of time from one-day to ten years.

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Today’s Chart of the Day is from Brian Feroldi from Bank of America Global Research, showing a chart from 1929 that shows as time horizons grow, the possibility of equity losses historically fall off. 
 
For any given one-day span, there is a 46% chance that the S&P 500 (the 500 largest stocks in the United States) will have a negative return. However, the probability of negative returns falls to 25% for one year, 10% in five years, and 6% in 10 years. 
 
This is a juxtaposition with my June 26, 2025, Chart of the Day called “Odds of Gains,” with one striking difference—that chart went further to show there was a ZERO chance of loss over a 20-year span.  
 
It just goes to show that when it comes to investing, patience really does pay off.
Chart of the Day

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