A hypothetical $10,000 investment from 1930, missing the top 10 market days per decade, would grow to $12,800 (28% increase) by today. If all best days were captured, the portfolio would be worth nearly $1.8 million (an 18,000% increase).
"if you take a hypothetical ten thousand dollars that you invested in 1930 but you missed out on the top 10 days across each of the Decades all the way up until the present time today after 93 years of investing your ten thousand dollars would be worth roughly twelve thousand eight hundred dollars and increase of 28 percent but if you stayed invested and you didn't miss the best days today you probably would not be alive so be glad you weren't born in 1930 but your portfolio would be up almost eighteen thousand percent or close to 1.8 million dollars"