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S&P 500 Buy & Hold

100% stocks, never sell.

Holding now

Signal from Dec 2025 close
  • SPY100%
  • SPYS&P 500100.0%

Trailing returns

Through Sep 25, 2026 · 3Y+ annualised

1M

+0.8%

YTD

+14.0%

1Y

+17.0%

3Y

+23.2%

5Y

+14.0%

10Y

+15.4%

Growth of $100

Backtest from Feb 1, 1995 to Sep 25, 2026 (31.5 years)

S&P 500 Buy & Hold+1206%
60/40+598%

Growth of $100, rebased to the start of the selected range. Month-end prices, dividends reinvested, no taxes or trading costs.

Risk & return, full backtest

CAGR

+11.2%

Volatility

19.0%

Max drawdown

-55.2%

Sharpe

0.59

Sortino

0.83

Calmar

0.20

Best year

+33.5%

Worst year

-36.8%

Drawdowns

Percent below the prior peak

Calendar-year returns

Faded bars are partial years · 65% of months positive

Strategy Lab

Stress-test the implementation: trade on the signal day's close or later, split the portfolio into tranches that rebalance on different days (reduces timing luck), or swap a fund for a same-asset-class alternative.

The idea

The S&P 500 with dividends reinvested: the all-equity reference point, with the highest long-run return of the simple options and the deepest drawdowns.

The rules

  1. 1100% S&P 500.

Funds used

  • SPY S&P 500

Early history uses proxy funds: SHY.

Recent allocations

Decided at each month-end, held the following month

  • Dec 2025
  • Dec 2024
  • Dec 2023
  • Dec 2022
  • Dec 2021
  • Dec 2020
  • Dec 2019
  • Dec 2018
  • Dec 2017
  • Dec 2016
  • Dec 2015
  • Dec 2014

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