[CurlyDave]

...I ask because over 25 years my investments have tended to lose in a year what it took 3 or 4 to gain...

Have you ever though that you might be in the wrong investments?

I say this because mine tend to rise more quickly and come back faster than you indicate.

[Joe Brower]

"Have you ever though that you might be in the wrong investments? "

Thanks for the reply. Yes, many times. I am no financial guru, and most of the time I have entrusted my savings to "professional investors". This is the end result.

I guess it doesn't surprise me that things go down five times faster than they go up. But after about five or six cycles of that, it's gotten old.

Question would be, what are the "right" investments? Seems like I ask ten different people and will get ten different answers.