Seriously you think that little story describes an unrealized gain? If you do , you have issues with reality.
Index piker also counts his pre-tax additions into his accounts as part of his total return, and while claiming to be a "passive investor" who can beat 95% of the active traders on the site, he is actually actively moving his money between large and small cap, global, emergining market and money market funds (I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like ... trading). The guy is one of the biggest and most obvious cases of over-blown egotism and fraud this place has seen ... in a very, very, very longtime!
You have repeated this allegation several times in various places without any supporting evidence. I have clearly shown in my journal how outlandish this nonsense is in various ways 1) If true my employer would need to be either making irregular deposits weekly or my income exceeds 2.5 million /year. 2) I posted an image of one a day return the very next day that would require a large one day contribution from my employer. Why would an employer make a match for one week then the very next trading day make another contribution? 3) In case you are unaware there are absolute maximum contributions for profit sharing plans. 4) If I have done as you claim , my brokerage company has co-conspired with me to make the exact same fraudulent calculation of returns. Anybody with half a brain, will see that you baked this accusation up without a shred of proof, due to your own (I presume) jealousy. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181872&perpage=6&pagenumber=13 Somehow my success threatens you. My advice is: you'd better get used to it.
LOL The only thing you succeeded in doing is: 1. saveup over 50% of income over the past four years (while pretending to get the results from "passive indexing"), Link 2. catch the tail-end of this latest run-up (and claim a greater mastery of trading than 95% of the traders out there), LOL Link 3. and get caught in your bold faced lie of being a "passive investor" while actually demonstrating that you are an "active etf trader" by the knowledgeable traders on ETLink The only thing I'll be getting used to are your continued lies, exaggerations and obfuscation of the truth, as I'm sure you'll be doing plenty of it!
1) Complete lie: I never attempted to pass off my returns in the pension account as a result of "passive indexing". 2) I saw the epitome of an opportunity to implement my plan so sue me for being prepared. ("Chance favors the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur) 3) Let me get this straight. You are accusing me of being a better trader than you and your complaint is: I"M DOING IT WITH FEWER DECISIONS?
Whatever, don't pay attention to him. It's not like he thinks anybody can trade anyway, and when you challenge him he never follows through. He's just blowing smoke, which is his MO.