Why does Reddit love the S&P 500 so much?
>>61676253I don't pay taxes on my S&P500 ira. My 401k also is matched to 8%. You pay taxes and a premium.
>>61676461why bother with sp500 in an IRA instead of individual stocks to trade with more upside? If there's no tax, then why not?
>>61676461everyone trades paper metals lol, only schizos trade physical
>>61676498>tradethere is no trading with metals. you exchange fiat for metals and hold forever
>>61676253Cuz they are full globohomo beast system NPC faggots. They heckin love Powell and the federal reserve and endless fiat ponzis and the IRS, they are retarded nigger cattle.
>>61676253i read half of this and put it down because i knew it was not relevant at all. its for normies and it talks about how boomer got filthy rich doing nothing
>>61676738It's a book from back when all of that shit wasn't priced in instantly. Back when you had to calculate PE ratios and cash flows by hand. Back when shit would trend for days and days and days. It's like a book on Pong when the market is now more like the Total War series or a MOBA or something. In any event, it's way more advanced and intricate than it was back when that book was written. Options weren't even really a thing back then and those changed the entire nature of price action single-handedly as did each iterative increase in access and widespread use of them. Most books on the market are useless though in general.
>>61676486Because the average person does not beat the market nor does the average managed fund, especially net of fees.If the smartest people in finance with copious amounts of data and algorithms and nanosecond trades and probably a fair amount of insider information can't beat it consistently, why is some retard like you sitting on his couch trading retail going to do better?
>>61676253OOO OO AHHH AHH I MADE 2X OVER 10 YEARS!!!>4000 dollars for rent this month, sir
>>61676861>the average person does not beat the marketThe market is the average.
>>61676253If you wear girly shoes around the house you deserve it
>>61676253Same reason your mother has sex with black guys.
>>61676894The returns of an average person picking stocks is not the same as average returns for an index fund.If your reading comprehension is too low to understand that, you are actually below average.
>>61676253Redditors are risk averse people.
>>61677178who is the "average person"? Sample size? Time period? I think you're extrapolating that because money managers/HFs don't beat the market, that the average person doesn't? I've averaged 34% a year for the last 5 but if I was limited like a HF, I would consider beating the S&P a huge accomplishment. No leverage, forced to be beta neutral, caps on portfolio beta, no options except to hedge, no shorting, taking weeks to build a max position, getting sniped by retail who can see your block trades/hedges, forced to chase liquid names, forced to buy certain names/strategies, forced to have quarterly/annual holdings or risk redemptions, career risk, etc etc etc.As a HF I can't buy TLT quarterly puts with 12% of my portfolio and get out in two weeks for a total portfolio gain of +21% in one month. Yes, beta is higher, but controlling for vol and beta is literally going to make you under perform the market. That makes selling vol, buying mega caps, and chasing momentum the primary methods for money managers to perform or even keep up with the market. Retail doesn't have to do those things.
>>61676861I’m an average person and had 46% return with me only “actively” trading for 6 months last year. I’m doing pretty good this year so far. Anon, we’re accelerating rapidly. The snp boglehead slop is a good way to stay poor and be relegated to a bug pod in the future
>>61676253Because Reddit is always wrong about everything.
>>61676253The Intelligent Investor tells you to buy and hold gold about a hundred times and to carefully guard it.
>>61677501Oh wait I was thinking of Richest Man in Babylon
>>61677467It's not just the raw profits you make, it's the profits you make on a risk-adjusted basis. It's possible that you made the money you did, but didn't earn enough money to justify the amount of risk your investments were.
>>61677815I don’t follow TA or any other slop, I go off vibes. And simply studying history and knowing the Jewish agenda and plan. Doesn’t feel risky to me. Anyway, I’m gonna keep on keeping on. My belief is you’re a fool for investing in broad ETFs in 2026 and need to wake up to reality. At the bare minimum buy sector etfs
The smartest people on earth with the infinite piles of money and the best equipment in the world don't beat the market consistently, even net of fees. the stats are very clear the surest way to grow money is simplify buying the entire market and letting capitalism capital. total market index like VTI is arguably a more stable bet long term but the sp500 is something like 60% of the entire worlds economy, and lets be honest about it almost all the most important ones.
>>61677922>The smartest people on earth with the infinite piles of money and the best equipment in the world don't beat the market consistently, even net of fees.Why would they care? Their incentive is the fees from their clients, not their return. As long as they offer services that get them assets under management which they charge an annual fee, they are winning regardless of the performance of those assets. Every fund on earth that has an expense ratio is designed around offering options to investors, not outperformance. Funds like hedge funds that take a percentage of the return (usually in addition to an expense ratio) have more incentive to outperform, which is why they actually tend to outperform on a volatility-adjusted basis.
