According to QCompounding, the S&P 500 has delivered roughly 11 to 12 percent average annual returns since 1980, yet single-year results rarely match that average due to persistent volatility, source: QCompounding. The trading takeaway is to exploit volatility by buying equities during severe selloffs instead of anchoring on the long-run mean, source: QCompounding. For crypto markets, traders can adapt the same volatility-aware buy-the-dip framework to accumulate BTC and ETH during broad risk-off episodes, source: QCompounding.