your chart shows a massive increase post 2007 which is absolutely wrong even taking into account dividends which are only about 3.5% anyway.
You dont have any idea do you. The graph is for my particular mix of shares, my super and term deposits. For a giggle after I update graph tomorrow, I might add the money that ive gifted. It will look a whole lot better then. GFC bottom for me was 22/11/2008, After that was it full steam ahead, unless you paniced and cashed in durring the fall. When did you say you pulled out of sharemarket? I cannot help what the graph indicates, Believe it or not!