If History Repeats, This Unstoppable ETF Can Make You a Millionaire With a $100,000 Initial Investment and $800 Monthly Contributions Over 20 Years

There are a lot of ways investors can grow their wealth over time. While acquiring real estate, purchasing Treasury bonds, and buying commodities have all done the trick, no asset class has come particularly close to matching the average annual return of stocks.

But the price of admission to Wall Street's greatest wealth creator is volatility. Though no other asset class has matched the annualized return of the benchmark S 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), or growth-inspired Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) over multidecade periods, getting from point A to point B can oftentimes be a wild ride.

For example, between April 2 and July 10, the broad-based S 500 endured its fifth-biggest two-day percentage decline since 1950, its largest single-day point increase since its inception, and registered only its sixth gain of at least 25% spanning three months in 75 years.

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