because it looks like any old stock chart. I think it's saying, in answer to your question, that it will happen to all of us. The question is, how much size will we have on when it does.
Ralph Vince's discussion of Optimal f touches on this (Portfolio Management Formulas).
Solomon, thought to be the wisest man whoever lived (certainly was the richest and had the most women) said, 'time and chance happen to them all.'
Now, how would you play that second chart, if you had to>?