Post #4020 by rayvt on the Mechanical Investing board

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80 trades in 6 months is a lot.
Lot lot.
What matters is not how many trades are wins, but how much money you have made. This is the trap that neophytes at options get clobbered with. 9 of 10 trades win but the 10'th trades loses more dollars than the 9 trades gained.

How about this?
"Imagine a trading strategy so simple it takes just five minutes a year to manage, yet it has outperformed the Nasdaq for over a decade."

https://www.quantifiedstrategies.com/a-simple-2-et...
A Simple 2-ETF Strategy That Outperforms the Nasdaq

Backtest: https://testfol.io/?s=eeBYH1YIKgi

Or if you are okay with buying pallets of Tums & sleeping pills: TQQQ.
https://testfol.io/?s=7B7x3bkw2K8

Massive -82% (!!!) drawdown
Drop from $2,050,000 to $420,000
While at the same time of that $2,050,000 QQQ was $103,500 and SPY was $55,000.
The bottom of $420K was higher than the peaks of $103K & $55K

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