it uses S&P500 which isn’t necessarily winning stocks. although it wins over the long term, lots of losing years are included here.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 days 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 😋
noir_chat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days 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 :)
noir_chat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s 63% pro-couch right now. so you’ve been lucky so far : )
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days 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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Ah okay, i only tried 3 or 4 times and it always was a winner (for that period).