Picture a crystal ball. One that will tell you exactly what the future holds…if the stock market will go up or down. Gone would be the uncertainty and anxiety that can come with investing.

Short of finding a crystal ball, it helps to remember that the best indicator of future stock market performance is past performance. So, what does history tell us?

Here’s an interesting article by Dimensional’s David Booth that gives some perspective: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for Investors