Beau, I have never liked analysing in terms of percentage. Its misleading. I remember arguing this with a portfolio manager who was showing the value of buying and holding. He was showing these big numbers first losers then winners. -25%, -35%, +60% Has your portfolio recovered full value??? NO!! Misleading, because k% down followed by k% up does NOT return you to the same $ amount. I would agree that your analysis shows an average positive return of roughly 1.2% but ... This shows that you should have tripled your portfolio. So, why are you down 15%? You're right;I don't know what you're doing.
You can only see the 1x returns from that. To get 2x or 3x raise the percentages by (1 + percentage)^2 for the QID/QLD backtest, and (1 + percentage)^3 for SQQQ/TQQQ. I've only used this particular variant for the last 3 trades.
Ok, so if I plug in the 3x option with the percentages you have provided, I see $100 increasing to $3579 in 102 trades (assuming profits are reinvested and compounded) Ummm, good luck, not a snow ball's chance in hell!
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You truly belive that? The only actual reason I could think of would be a failing state/banks in europe, and that is unlikely to happen at this point, but this is definately a on-going story. What would rather disturb me is a republican wrecking the US economy again after being elected this year, but this would not be before 2013.
LOL It doesn't matter whos president, the world gov'ts will have to deleverage at some point or just print a bunch of money to inflate it away. Doesn't matter if its republican or democrat that doesn't change the debt in the world unless of course the president decides to delverage which will hurt the economy.
Still Republican and Democratic views on the economy and their plans to actually fix it coulnd't be further apart at this time. Thus it probably will make a diffrence who gets elected.