Recommend this page to a friend. Our panel of experts answers your mutual fund questions. My mom always told me that in every painful experience there lies a very powerful lesson.
Same theory holds true in the world of investing.
The year 2000 started off with a vigorous sprint, piggybacking on the phenomenal success of previous years. Then spring came and all of a sudden the train just lost its steam. Things just never seemed to recover for the rest of year. Markets go up, markets go down, and that s the nature of the beast. The vertical performance of the market has been unprecedented.