They say the average annual return of the market is typically between 7% - 10%.
So as investors, that's the return we should typically expect, right?
Well, no.
While the market average is typically 7% to 10%, there is a wide standard deviation, meaning that most years the market does not have a return within that average range.
In fact, it's just as common for the market to return 0% to -10% as it is for it to return 0% to 10%.
And it's actually much more common for the market to have returns of 10% to 30% than the average.
And this is why most people can't handle investing.