January 1975. Every portfolio starts with $10,000 of today's money.
Jan 1975
Put $10,000 into the S&P 500 in 1975 and race it against , , , and .
Select a name to add it to the race or take it out.
Fifty-one years in about fifteen seconds. It slows down for each crash.
After fifty-one years
The S&P 500 and the portfolios in your race, in today's dollars.
Bonus round
All at once, or a little each month?
Say you have $10,000 for the S&P 500.
All at once ahead
Buying monthly ahead
Each bar is one start month. Money waiting to be invested earns 3-month Treasury bill interest, and the twelfth purchase sweeps in that interest, so both are fully invested after a year. From then on they hold the same fund, so the gap between them never changes.