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Teaching People to Trade Stocks Is Like Starting T...
The S&P 500 is up 15% from 60 days ago which is considerably more than all of the positions in your screenshot.
dsmithatx
on Feb 22, 2019
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I'm long in these holdings. The S&P500 over 60 days involves no research.
deegles
on Feb 22, 2019
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I believe that's the point. You could have been on vacation instead of doing all that work to pick stocks and still made more money.
pertymcpert
on Feb 22, 2019
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Looks like it's up around 5% from Nov 20th, not 15%.
dsmithatx
on Feb 22, 2019
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I bought XOM about 2-3 weeks ago at 71.75 You're also not calculating dividends. Xom is pay 4.4 and some of my other holding have already paid a few thousand in dividends.
minimax
on Feb 22, 2019
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Today is Feb 21, 60 days ago is late December not November.
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