Results: What’s The Average Market Return

So the question asked in the first poll was “In this current market, what type of returns do YOU expect to get from the stock market?” Nothing too complex or ground-breaking here, just breaking in the polling system.

Check out the results below:

What’s most noticeable is that not one person expects to make negative returns in this market.

Year to date for 2009, all the 3 major markets are already up: Dow 10.66% | S&P 500 17.03% | Nasdaq 34.58%, so it looks obvious that expecting a positive isn’t asking too much here.