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duuypqii02
01-08-2017,
Excuse my iconoclastic nature while I potentially ruffle some more feathers.

http://web.streetauthority.com/m/dpc/2014/retirement-plan/sample-c.asp?TC=DP2345

S (http://web.streetauthority.com/m/dpc/2014/retirement-plan/sample-c.asp?TC=DP2345)o the author brags that they are up 55% since Dec of 2009 with a 200k account by using this investing method/strategy.....apparently the "Senior Investing Strategist" of Street Authority.....really.

55%......sounds like a lot....a lot compared to what? If you had just bought SPY in Dec of 2009 you would be up 85%. So they under performed the SPY by 30%....and they think that is just peachy. In fact they think you should buy their newsletter or whatever else so they can show you how you can under perform the SPY.

Sorry but a freakin monkey with a handful of darts could have made money buying stocks and holding for the last 5 years.

Under performing by 30% is nearly a 1 standard deviation to the downside.....so by random selection of S&P stocks one would expect around a 80% chance of out performing this person.

To be fair...toward the end of the speech she "says" that her over all portfolio is up 80%. Well that's more like it but who knows what and when that is from. But still I would expect more from a "Senior Investing Strategist".

Sorry but if I'm paying for something I would expect to outperform the benchmark.

Douglasbug
01-09-2017,
When will the 'Acstudio Options Program' be available? I'm on the waiting list.

dpsohxjm15
01-12-2017,
Ye right.

When I think I know a damn thing....and it'll be free.

DTokNXsvkb
01-15-2017,
haha you should at least make a free video to refer people to for intro to dough.com and tastytrade.

A) go to this site
B) watch this video
C) next... etc

Would be easy for you to do and save your time from posting the same things to the newbs over and over again. Or at least make a thread you can refer them too and then they can ask questions from there.