In the long term, we are all dead

Long term investing hasn't really worked in the past few years, at least in Asian markets.

2015/16 - china market crash, crash in oil prices

2017 - market upturn, stocks recover

2018/19 - tariffs, change of govt in M'sia. Gave back all the gains from 2017 and for some ppl, more. (ask those in stock section, some are still nursing 50% loss)

Jan-Apr 2019 - market upturn, stocks recover

May 2019 - tariffs, stocks sharply lower in just a few days

Firstly, u need to read properly before replying - I was specifying the Asian markets.

Secondly, u cherry-pick the US index and sector that performed best. It'll be a more accurate indicator that long term investing works if at least 2/3rds of the world's major indicies return 45% in the last 5 years.

Asia's major markets obviously and generally did not perform well in the last 5 years.

Fingers crossed