The market can be a very scary place. Odds are you’ve seen some volatility since you made your first investment. Below we’ve inserted a chart that might allay your investment fears. This is the best investment chart we’ve seen in ages.

Each data point on this chart represents a single year. We see no daily noise or panic as we’ve witnessed over the last week. We see just a simple truth: markets go higher.

This chart confirms that long-term investing really works. Buy the market with the intent to hold the shares over time, ignore the short-term noise and watch your money grow.

Watch this quick Periscope video we did after a particularly turbulent Monday on the markets.