OPPENHEIMERFUNDS PULSE OF THE MARKET
Longer Time Horizons May Lower Your Chances of Loss
Annual Rolling Period Results for S&P 500 Index1 (1926–2010)
Number of Periods
Number of Periods
with a Loss
1 year
85
24
3 years
83
15
5 years
81
11
10 years
76
3
25 years
61
0
Holding Period
1. Source of chart data: Ned Davis Research, 12/31/10. Based on calendar year-end results for all investment periods beginning and ending within January 1926 and December 31, 2010. The S&P 500 Index is a broad-based
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Historically, the longer your holding period for stocks, the lower your
chances have been of experiencing loss.
Looking at one-year rolling periods over 85 years, you would have experienced 24 periods of loss
Over a 10-year horizon, historically that would have dropped to three periods of loss, and over
a 25-year horizon, historically that would have dropped to no periods of loss
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lose money
Note: The three (out of 76) 10-year holding periods in which stocks experienced a loss were the
10-year periods ended 12/31/38, 12/31/08 and 12/31/09
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