Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1M Trades

Re:Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1M ... by berberous on Sunday September 28, 2014 @12:35PM (#8380147)

Did you 'come out ahead' in the sense that you made money, or in the sense that you beat the S&P or similar indices?

I don't doubt that you, specifically, may have beat the S&P, but I think lots of people don't keep a great track record of how they've done, tend to forget their average or bad trades, and overemphasize their good trades in their minds. I'll then ask them how much their overall portfolio has grown from year 1 to year 5, and then calculate the S&P's growth in that time, and they almost always have only managed to match it (with a lot of time wasted to do so) or actually did worse.

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Re:Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1M ... by zippergz on Sunday September 28, 2014 @02:59PM (#8380613)

I keep obsessive track, and over the last 12 years I've been roughly equivalent to the S&P 500 (which, again, I attribute far more to luck than anything else). Like I said, this is for fun, not for true investment purposes. So anything that doesn't lose money is a win in my eyes. My real investments are primarily in index funds.

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Re:Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1M ... by exhilaration on Sunday September 28, 2014 @08:07PM (#8381257)

* I think lots of people don't keep a great track record of how they've done

Ha! This is true for me, I only realize how much I've lost when I see those negative numbers in TurboTax before filing my tax return.

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