Take $1,000, Trade Once a Day, Make $264 Billion—You Could Have Done It in 2013

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Take $1,000, Trade Once a Day, Make $264 Billion—You Could Have Done It in 2013
If you can send any article back in time to December 31, 2012, make it this one.
David Yanofsky Dec 16 2013, 10:44 AM ET


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What if you knew which stocks to invest in every day? What if every bet in the markets was a sure thing? What if you could put all of your eggs in one basket and never lose? How much could you have made in 2013 if you started with $1,000 to invest?

Billions.


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A trader who began the year with $1,000 in her brokerage account and put all of her money in each day’s best-performing equity in the S&P 500—day after day—for the 241 trading days so far this year would have $264 billion in her account today.

By March 4, her gains would have reached $53,200, exceeding the US household’s median annual income. She would have made a million dollars by April 23 while invested in Netflix, and a week later she would have doubled when her stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals grew 10.3% on May 1.

Her first billion would have come when AutoDesk saw 7.69% growth on August 23. By October 17, she would have had $10 billion. Less than a week later it would have been over $100 billion. In November, she would have become the richest person in the world.

Over the course of the year, she would have never taken a loss on any day. Here’s a day-by-day calendar of the S&P stock she would have had to invest 100% of her portfolio in to pull off the perfect trading year. (You can enter ticker symbols you don’t know here to see the full company names.)



Although the S&P 500 has—as its name implies—500 members, only 129 companies were top performers on any of the 240 trading days this year. Here are some of the best:



Of course, once your investment had grown past a certain point, it would be impossible to put into any stock without drastically affecting the stock’s price. In many cases, investing this volume of cash would be impossible—in some cases there wouldn’t have been enough shares to buy. For our analysis we also did not take into account trading fees nor changes in the composition of the S&P index. We also assumed that all companies allowed for investment in fractional shares.
Moreover, even if one made the impossibly optimistic assumption that picking the best stock of the day is a 50-50 guess, there would be only a one-in-3.53 trevigintillion (3.53 x 1072) chance of matching these results.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business...illion-you-could-have-done-it-in-2013/282386/

@Domingo Halliburton @alybaba @Bernie Madoff

 

[ill]

@DEAD7 posted this in the stock market thread.

This is unrealistic. No one will ever pick the top winner every day. Articles like this mislead the public into thinking they can make easy money in the market and then the sharks take them for everything they got.

You can also trade non S&P stocks that easily shyt all over the gains this guy found.

Money preservation, diversifying your holdings, and locking in profits are the keys to wealth.

Articles like this get the retail investor excited and involved in the market. They get owned by the big boys and then cry that Wall St is unfair and cheating.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

IS ANYBODY ELSE ANNOYED THAT WRITERS SWITCHED FROM MALE PRONOUNS TO FEMALE ONES INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING THEY AND THEM, BROTHER?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

IS ANYBODY ELSE ANNOYED THAT WRITERS SWITCHED FROM MALE PRONOUNS TO FEMALE ONES INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING THEY AND THEM, BROTHER?

when did this shyt start?

 

[Tommy Knocks]

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I think it woulda been cooler if he just showed us how much one would have gained had they put 1k in Netflix stock for a year.

its realistic and I bet its a lot.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Boooooooo!

 

[ill]

I think it woulda been cooler if he just showed us how much one would have gained had they put 1k in Netflix stock for a year.

its realistic and I bet its a lot.

3k in profit if you bought a year ago from today

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Take $1,000, Trade Once a Day, Make $264 Billion—You Could Have Done It in 2013
If you can send any article back in time to December 31, 2012, make it this one.
David Yanofsky Dec 16 2013, 10:44 AM ET


4
inShare
More

Reuters
What if you knew which stocks to invest in every day? What if every bet in the markets was a sure thing? What if you could put all of your eggs in one basket and never lose? How much could you have made in 2013 if you started with $1,000 to invest?

Billions.


MORE FROM QUARTZ

• Why Planes Are Taking Over Global Trade
• Animal Spirits: Live, From Europe
• The Internet of Things Will Replace the Web

A trader who began the year with $1,000 in her brokerage account and put all of her money in each day’s best-performing equity in the S&P 500—day after day—for the 241 trading days so far this year would have $264 billion in her account today.

By March 4, her gains would have reached $53,200, exceeding the US household’s median annual income. She would have made a million dollars by April 23 while invested in Netflix, and a week later she would have doubled when her stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals grew 10.3% on May 1.

Her first billion would have come when AutoDesk saw 7.69% growth on August 23. By October 17, she would have had $10 billion. Less than a week later it would have been over $100 billion. In November, she would have become the richest person in the world.

Over the course of the year, she would have never taken a loss on any day. Here’s a day-by-day calendar of the S&P stock she would have had to invest 100% of her portfolio in to pull off the perfect trading year. (You can enter ticker symbols you don’t know here to see the full company names.)



Although the S&P 500 has—as its name implies—500 members, only 129 companies were top performers on any of the 240 trading days this year. Here are some of the best:



Of course, once your investment had grown past a certain point, it would be impossible to put into any stock without drastically affecting the stock’s price. In many cases, investing this volume of cash would be impossible—in some cases there wouldn’t have been enough shares to buy. For our analysis we also did not take into account trading fees nor changes in the composition of the S&P index. We also assumed that all companies allowed for investment in fractional shares.
Moreover, even if one made the impossibly optimistic assumption that picking the best stock of the day is a 50-50 guess, there would be only a one-in-3.53 trevigintillion (3.53 x 1072) chance of matching these results.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business...illion-you-could-have-done-it-in-2013/282386/

@Domingo Halliburton @alybaba @Bernie Madoff

Could someone explain how it would work? How much would be the fees? Which brokerage to use? Can you schedule picks to change each day?

 

[unit321]

It was a hypothetical situation, which is interesting. The problem I had with it is that you get taxed "balls deep" when you sell stock that you have owned short term. One day to one week is short term.

 

[LordTaskForce]

@DEAD7 posted this in the stock market thread.

This is unrealistic. No one will ever pick the top winner every day. Articles like this mislead the public into thinking they can make easy money in the market and then the sharks take them for everything they got.

You can also trade non S&P stocks that easily shyt all over the gains this guy found.

Money preservation, diversifying your holdings, and locking in profits are the keys to wealth.

Articles like this get the retail investor excited and involved in the market. They get owned by the big boys and then cry that Wall St is unfair and cheating.

nikkas can't even get the espn streak for 30

 

[Liquid]

I made a nice amount off netlifx.

lol @ people doubting them

 

[Kritic]

@DEAD7 posted this in the stock market thread.

This is unrealistic. No one will ever pick the top winner every day. Articles like this mislead the public into thinking they can make easy money in the market and then the sharks take them for everything they got.

You can also trade non S&P stocks that easily shyt all over the gains this guy found.

Money preservation, diversifying your holdings, and locking in profits are the keys to wealth.

Articles like this get the retail investor excited and involved in the market. They get owned by the big boys and then cry that Wall St is unfair and cheating.

it's not unrealistic. the inside trading that goes on makes those wall street crooks millions and millions of dollars. and they get away with it all the time.
they influence govt and get the news before it hits the public. they get all the info first and know how to put their money.

used to be illegal and they went to jail for it but now they get away with it. the lawyers and judges and sec are all in it.

the zionist financial cabal/network and the gentiles, who eventually take the fall, gets away with it all the time.

it is realistic. it's going on right now.

it's level's to this sh1t young boy.

 

[Propaganda]

it's not unrealistic. the inside trading that goes on makes those wall street crooks millions and millions of dollars. and they get away with it all the time.
they influence govt and get the news before it hits the public. they get all the info first and know how to put their money.

used to be illegal and they went to jail for it but now they get away with it. the lawyers and judges and sec are all in it.

the zionist financial cabal/network and the gentiles, who eventually take the fall, gets away with it all the time.

it is realistic. it's going on right now.

it's level's to this sh1t young boy.

it's completely unrealistic to have enough insider knowledge to pull off something like this.

there's levels to shyt young boy.

 

[Kritic]

it's going on right now dummy. just cause your tv is distracted with democrats fighting republicans and tmz and miley and reality shows doesn't mean it's not going on.


levels to this sh1t dummy.