i agree specially in investing, not saying this is the holy grail, but in investments (which is consider different than trading) it could be very simple just look at Jim Rogers
He doesn't need to outdo Wall Street--only to match them with less volatility, which is the same thing as beating them when you consider compounded returns.
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oh, iam not sure why were talking about them to begin with, were talking about sp500 n this,,, by the way totally unrelated to this i wanted to thank u on ur advice in other post regarding hiring someone to code for back testing, its working so far good