Continuing in the theme of why I'm almost exclusively a "buy only" investor, the chart above is from back in 2009 when I used to track my dividends on a daily basis. I had built a portfolio around a group of holdings in such a way that I was receiving a dividend payment almost every trading day of the year. How to grow your net worth by hundreds of times over by aiming for zero trading gains. What you're seeing here was a portfolio that was created in January, and then as dividends started getting paid to me, the bumps would get gradually larger and larger. I would make investments every other week when I got paid, and then split the amount across whatever was down the most, or whatever was looking like an exceptionally good deal at the time. This portfolio eventually grew into more than 180 different holdings, but you could easily construct a sufficiently diversified portfolio using less than 30 investments, I'm sure. The largest spikes are near the start and end of the month because most companies pay on those dates. Deliberately going after crisis situations was the norm. The spikes aren't just getting larger as a result of evenly added amounts of money. They were from compounded dividend growth. I would listen to financial news each morning on the way to work to find out what people were the most freaked out about. One of the events that stands out in my mind is from the Greek bond crisis that took place in that year. I was holding onto Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), much as I am today, and the price came down so much and so fast that I had doubled the number of shares I owned at least three times before it started to even out. By that point I had seen a 600% increase in the amount of dividends I was receiving. It's the big red spike near the middle of the graph. What I would consistently see throughout the year was that as one particular company was having a rough day, it would pull the entire sector down alongside it. I would deliberately buy as much as I could get during that time, and occasionally add another company from that sector if it was unfairly pulled down. The situation always went back to normal, and most of the time it didn't take very long. Then the market would go after some other sector, and I could repeat the process. I was never focused on trading profits. Just getting the stocks with negative performance to as close to zero% gain/loss before the market corrected itself. Like for example, say you have this stock that's down 10%. If you double the holding size you'd be only down 5%. Of course, sometimes those stocks would fall more, but I would just stay on them until the turnaround inevitably occurred.I would trim holdings after the recoveries if gains went above 20% or thereabouts. If there weren't any good deals that week, I'd just buy more of whatever I had the least of. But there were almost always good deals. I stopped tracking these numbers years ago, but if I had continued doing it you would have seen that as the stock market got higher in price, the spikes weren't growing as fast. So it's these sharp drops in stock price that really do much more for the growth of your fortune in the long term.