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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.

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As far as I can tell it only used stock that “won”. In that scenario, beating the couch is hard luck. But stock that ends up on 0, you could win more easily.

In real life I live off of that, so a couch won’t always win 😋

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ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got 2 years just post 1929 and the only reason I won was I sold early and only lost 30% of the 10k, the couch lost 6k.

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- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah okay, i only tried 3 or 4 times and it always was a winner (for that period).
  
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noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
it uses S&P500 which isn’t necessarily winning stocks. although it wins over the long term, lots of losing years are included here.

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- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  i only tried 3 or 4 times and it always was a winner (for that period), so my comment shall be disregarded if there are also loosing stocks in the same ratio :)
  
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  - noir_chat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    it’s 63% pro-couch right now. so you’ve been lucky so far : )
    
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