JK - Who cares about 2000 years? I care about my lifetime. Ever heard of revolutions ? They happen when the mass poor get pissed off. Your ideas...
JK - You seem to have a very smooth linear predictable view of the world. Almost like textbook or popular media stuff. You can be comfortably...
In 2008 I had my 32nd birthday and it helped having had some experience trading stocks since 1999 and investing through a few cycles but never had...
To finish the story I also took out a personal loan of 40,000 USD at 5% once I had a large profit on the position in 2010/11 and added to it. Kept...
Well sure the market could have gone down 25%. Its possible but since it was already a long way down I gave it a low probability. It was already...
1.2^40=1470 I get your point that over a long period 20% compounds up to a big number. But you need a long period. If your aiming for 1 M USD to...
Well Im not trying to be a billionaire like him and noone is going to sack me because i underperformed an index in a single year. Just trying to...
The stock market isn't an isolated pool. If he lost 15% he lost 15% so he should have put the money in the bank. Hes just not done as bad as...
That's the point about equity not being zero sum. The projects in the underlying businesses do create value over time which is shared with the...
It depends what you are trading but perhaps you will realise that the calculations are nonsense because it isnt a zero-sum game and there isnt...
I know it is possible. My general impression though (and I don't day trade) is that many folks dont know what they are up against, dont have a...
Good for you but I'm not sure why you seemed so keen to tell me about your achievements. I have no idea who you are. If its matter of public...
"I'm sure this will come as quite a surprise... but my gains came via "mutual fund timing".... and that was before there were leveraged and...
I could imagine there are lots of small unknown traders out there gaining >20% compounded. With small money and only being answerable to yourself...
Yes after tax, but im not from US and the way the accounts are set up dont have to pay much tax anyway.
Thanks for the replies. Different bucket system seems popular. In the main trading account I have ca 600,000 USD and aim for 23% per year so...
To me it seems more sensible to withdraw a fixed percent of the total at regular intervals rather than the models many press articles highlight...
5,065,000 SEK Well didnt think I would reach the annual target of 1 M SEK (25%) so soon into the year and about the same time as the last snow...
4,925,000 SEK Most Swedish stocks only pay one dividend per year and its normally around this time. Proposed changes to the tax rules on ISK...
4,850,000 SEK Not posted for a while because, well not done much or have much to say. Today there was another rate cut in Sweden. Repo rate now...
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