You would have lost 48% of your investment, investment guy.
You left out the thousands of deaths for no reason in Iraq, the hundreds of thousands of deaths of Iraqi citizens, that he couldn't find OBL even saying he didn't care about it at one point, his wishing to privatized Social Security--and that would have lead to a total wipe out of millions thanks to the 512 point drop that occurred on his watch--it's a good thing smarter heads prevailed.
I would have been very happy to have been investing 10% of my Soc Sec payroll tax into the stock market when it was at 7,000. Investing a set amount monthly or quarterly is called dollar cost averaging, and I have done that for years with my own money. I would have made a helluva lot more money for my retirement had Bush got the scumbags to privatize Soc Sec. And, you would have done the same if you had a job.
I bought the nasdaq index fund using my system and it has gone from $41 and change to $59 over the last 52 weeks. The 100 shares I bought for $4100+$20 commission 12 months ago are now worth $5900.
You grab your numbers out of your ass, I can prove mine.