Market participants mostly use the S&P 500 index as their benchmark to compare performance against the overall stock market. This often creates behavioral biases – for example, looking backward and saying that if one didn’t beat the index, then they should just park their money in it, assuming the future will be the same. Obviously, […]
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Photo: Sergei Trofimov, Äripäev Performing at a local investing festival on how to find one’s own appropriate investing style It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been enjoying summer and spending time outdoors. I’ll share some recent thoughts. I was crunching numbers and letting the backtest software do some heavy computing the other […]
Good performance comes from not knowing
I’ve put some thought into this lately. Let’s be honest, nobody knows what the stock market will do next. If you’re still thinking otherwise and trying to predict the future, then I can just say that it’ll take some more time for you to understand. Everybody is guessing something and someone has to be right […]
I’m back to the highs again
Happy New Year! I have 7 trading accounts in my portfolio. One of the accounts returned +52% in 2023. See you next year! Lol. That seems to be the industry’s standard to talk about annual performance, right. Let’s look further what all of my assets combined did in 2023. 90% of trading is about sitting […]
Every three months I look back at my trades from the quarter previous to the last one, so that the trades are in the middle of the chart. It’s a good way to study entries and exits. I was summing up my second quarter of 2022 today. I didn’t open up every single chart as […]