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by maxioatic 476 days ago
Yeah agree, I think it's really about personal risk tolerance.

I do agree 5 years is a while, but it's also easy to say that right now based on the last 5 years. It's not terribly difficult to find 5 year periods where returns aren't very good or flat out bad (e.g. starting investing in 2000).