easysurfer
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Won't be long now!
With more diverse indexes, I'm ahead of the lazy total market index in the ranking .
Won't be long now!
I stopped playing last week, as I thought it went inactive as the only real competition quit after getting blown up on his volatility trade?
I was culling my old bookmarks and had forgotten all about this. Looks like I won by attrition. Still, almost 72% return in a smidge over 2 years ain't bad.
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So did it drop others for lack of activity?
Would have been interesting to see the performance of some of the 'talkers'.
Looks like VTI would have gone from $100,000 to $153,788, so you beat the index by a good amount. But did anyone else?
-ERD50
The player "CMunger" was me, so I was doing pretty well. I guess I was dropped since I wasn't making any trades. Don't even remember what I had invested in.
There were several people that were handily beating the index.
... Finally, here is a screen grab from September 15, 2020, or exactly one year from my first screen grab (above) from September 2019 when there were fourteen players. Only two players now.
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Isn't this a two year contest? Quitting after a month?I stopped playing last week, as I thought it went inactive as the only real competition quit after getting blown up on his volatility trade?
Well, if I were a betting man, I'd bet that roughly half were beating the index
Thanks, looks like you were really leaving the index in the dust. I see a little over 18% gain for VTI using this tool:
https://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?VTI
So you were at $141K vs ~ $118K for VTI. Nice.
Running_Man was lagging at this point, ~ $109.5K vs the $118K for VTI.
Interesting. I guess NYEXPAT doesn't consider VTI "competition"? I do!
I really wanted to see how some of these traders did against VTI. Wish I had followed the thread closer, maybe I could have taunted some of them into staying active
edit/add: So I see that NYEXPAT says he quit in early JUNE2020, the last screenshot you have of him is from February 19, 2020, and there he is in the red over 9%, while VTI was up over 17%. No competition?
-ERD50
Yes taunting is why this forum exists, you are the best at it. RM
Yes taunting is why this forum exists, you are the best at it. RM
Thanks, looks like you were really leaving the index in the dust. I see a little over 18% gain for VTI using this tool:
https://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?VTI
So you were at $141K vs ~ $118K for VTI. Nice.
When I click on your link I get the VTI chart from Oct 14, 2020 through July 30, 2021. The contest started on May 2, 2019 and the screen grab where I had $141K was from Sept. 15, 2020. Plug those endpoints in and I come up with a 14.6% gain for VTI.
I get $141K vs. $114.6K for VTI. Nice.
If you take it out to today VTI has gained 57% and I'm up 74.1%.
Had someone invested solely in Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund, FBGRX, a large cap growth fund, they would be up 105%.