In the real world we all mostly hear about the happy stories and how people get rich stories. It is very difficult to find the ones where people struggle and never succeed. To be honest who wants to hear about the sad stories anyways? No one wants to be losing their money and learn from others who also does the same. So its an easy sale for the people who make promises of winning big.
10% annual return is definitely a good number. By the time people who start working and reach retirement age that would be like 40+ years of savings or 400% of gains not including compounding.
Thanks for putting thing back to reality. Where it belongs.
Compounding is the key, just become successful and make a profit, no matter what the amount, and the magic of compounding will do the rest !