Should I Stop Investing In Stocks?

Do people actually make money investing in the stock market?

I have been investing for the past 11 years. I just calculated my earnings in this time period. I am actually down in my investments since I started.

I have been adding money almost monthly for this whole period. As I earned more income, I have increased my monthly deposit.

At first I thought that maybe I didn’t know what I was doing until I started looking at some charts. Check out the MSFT (microsoft) chart for the past ten years. Ten years ago today Microsoft stock was at 41. As of this morning, MSFT is at 23. Where did all of the money go? How can this stock be almost halved in 10 years? I know for a fact Microsoft has made a profit every single quarter in those ten years.

Who got our money? Bill Gates is rich. Steve Balmer is rich. The employees are rich. Everyone but the investors are rich.

For this example I chose Microsoft as they are the easiest target. What about the other thousands of stocks out there. Many of them are the same story.

I am done investing in the stock market. Someone stole my money.

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