### Comment:
&gt; people dont look at an 18 month cycle with relative peak as baseline 
  
 I do

### REPLY:
so the market could go up 5000% over a 5 year period and then go sideways for 18 months and you would whine about your retirement savings? good to know. check out stock market between january 2010 and july 2011 (18 months). i dont want to even get into the conversation of acting like its useful to compare stock market performance right after the great recession and 8 years into an expansion, but my point is arbitrary time periods can be used to pretty much say whatever you want them to say

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