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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: rayvt 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 6132 
Subject: Re: New strategy
Date: 12/10/25 8:39 PM
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Too complicated. Too many steps with magic numbers.
Also, stops don't guarantee a price, they just guarantee a sell.

(BTW, it would be useful to post the link to these strategies when you mention them.)

Here's a simpler strategy that delivers 22 times your money in the last 10 years (11/6/2015 - 11/6/2025).

Ready?
Step 1) Buy TQQQ.
Step 2) There is no step 2.

There is a little tweak that delivers 41 times your money in the same time period.

Timing rule:
If QQQ did not have a new 90 day high in the last 90 days, sell.
Every day, after the close:
1) See if this day's close is the high close of the last 90 days.
2) See if any of the last 90 days was flagged as a 90 day high.
3) If yes, buy/hold. If no, sell.

There were 20 trades (10 sells, 10 buys) in that period.

Since TQQQ inception:
TQQQ      B&H       Timed
CAGR 42.5% 42.8%
stdev 61.2% 56.4%
MaxDD -82% -58%
# days 3957 3957
# DD >50% 441 41
# DD >25% 1137 1004
$1000 grows to
$260,728 $266,860
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