Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins.

Lurker1347@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  at the core it, it’s a fun little game and not much more a lot of people do “chart reading” to predict the market and this kind of pokes fun at that

  the idea is trying to time the market (whether buying or selling) is very hard and the s&p500 usually wins over the mid-to-long run

  and the other playing a couch is just to show how little of an effort it takes to make more money than trading - an inanimate object in an index fund can outperform you.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you should spend a few more sentences selling the couch to players: “It doesn’t buy. It doesn’t sell. It just holds on to the stocks it already has.”

    Or something like that.

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    • magnue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Frankly I don’t know how anyone would misunderstand what the meaning of playing against a couch is here. Although personally I’d use a potato

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      • noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        hmm. beatthepotato…

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    • noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      will look into it, thanks for the feedback

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The example I always found in investing literature is that the best class of investor is “dead people”, since they don’t time the market. Hard to say which one makes the point better.

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    • noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      beatthecorpse just didn’t have the same vibe to it

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