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How you could've turned $1000 into billions by perfectly trading S&P500 in 2014

15 points| fdgwhite | 11 years ago |qz.com

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[+] antr|11 years ago|reply
QZ did the same thing last year, and the "analysis" is still flawed... as the investment size, specially towards the end of year, is in many occasions over the market cap of the company being invested.
[+] yanofsky|11 years ago|reply
A flaw we admitted...in both years

Of course once you’ve made enough money it would be impossible to put it all into one stock without drastically affecting the stock’s price. Before long, you’d find that there were not enough shares to buy, or that you had purchased an entire company—a situation that we ignored for our analysis.

[+] CoachRufus87|11 years ago|reply
I wonder what the result would've been had you invested the 2013 picks in 2014.
[+] 31reasons|11 years ago|reply
This article makes a strong case of inventing a time machine.
[+] hexagonsun|11 years ago|reply
let me just invent a time machine quick
[+] api|11 years ago|reply
In other news, we could have powered the entire USA from one AA battery by instantiating Maxwell's Demon.