Cramer Urges Investors to Stay In as S&P 500 Jumps 118% in 4 Years
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Updated · CNBC · Oct 12
Cramer Urges Investors to Stay In as S&P 500 Jumps 118% in 4 Years
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Oct 12
Summary
A $10,000 investment made at the S&P 500’s October 2022 bottom would now be worth about $23,061, which Jim Cramer cited as proof that staying invested beat selling through repeated shocks.
The index climbed roughly 118% despite Fed rate hikes, a banking crisis, sweeping tariffs and war in Iran, reinforcing Cramer’s argument that markets can rebound even when the backdrop looks worst.
Nvidia returned about 1,875% and Meta 488% over the same stretch, but Cramer said the main lesson was not stock-picking — it was avoiding attempts to time every decline and recovery.
JPMorgan data underscored that point: a $10,000 S&P 500 investment that missed the market’s 10 best trading days from 2005 to 2024 ended with less than half the wealth of a fully invested portfolio.
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