Take a Journey With The Investment Time Machine

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Investing isn’t easy. It’s impossible to predict the future and it’s hard to know which trends are enduring and which are merely bubbles – soon to pop. There are always some experts quick to point out a surefire hit or miss, but in general, a diversified portfolio is your best bet.

Another important factor – patience. While you don’t want to sit on stocks for years when they are clearly trending downward, holding on to a respectable company for a decade or so can produce significant earnings over time.

Financial education company, Online Trading Academy, recently unveiled an “Investment Time Machine” that takes investors on a trip down memory lane. If, instead of buying a product back in the day a consumer invested in the company behind the item, what kind of profit would that translate to today?

There are some interesting examples on the site.

Apple

If you opted not to buy the Macintosh Classic when it first came out in 1990 and instead put those $1500 of savings into Apple stock (Aapl), today you’d have $100,000 to show for your restraint. That’s pretty remarkable.

Walmart

Likewise, investing in Walmart in the seventies would have amounted to a major payoff today. If, instead of buying a toaster back in the early days of the company, you invested the $15 savings in Walton family stock, you’d have $30K today.

Campbell’s Soup

Of course, they can’t all be huge winners. As well-liked as Campbell’s soup is, deciding against a buying a 5-pack from the supermarket in 1985 and investing the money in the company as a whole would only amount to $134 today. That’s better than nothing, but not as rewarding as some of the others listed on the site.

Check out the Investment Time Machine and see what kind of earnings you’d have if you invested in a popular brand instead of buying their product.

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