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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I didn’t sell because I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.  As we tried telling you at the time, your behavior was totally unhinged and counter to the most fundamental principles of investing.

It was especially absurd given that Trump already had a four-year run in which the market averaged 15%+, one of the best presidential records in history.  Yet, you people kept droning on and on about a Great Depression 2.0 and saying this would be like the complete collapse of the stock market in tsarist Russia.  Truly insane stuff.

(Btw, not only did I not lose money, but I actually made money by investing in Tesla when it was being dumped, again for no reason other than Elon Derangement Syndrome.)

So, sorry, but I feel no sympathy for you people.   We all make mistakes, but yours were based on psychotic hatred.  Ideally, you’d cure the hatred.  But if that’s too hard, in the future, at least limit your hatred to cutting off family members who voted for Trump—and keep your investments separate from your politics.[/quote]

[img]https://darrowwealthmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SP-500-Performance-Presidents.webp[/img][/quote]

Lol, is this supposed to be an “own” and disprove what I said?  Your own chart proves me right.

Try downloading an investment calculator.  Under the eight years of Obama, the S&P went from 850 to 2263, which is a compound annual rate of 12.3%.  Under the four years of Trump, it went from 2263 to 3798, which is a compound annual rate of 13%.  (Note this figure only includes the price level of the S&P 500.  When dividends are included and reinvested to capture the true total return, Trump’s compound annual rate is over 15%, exactly as I suggested.)

So Obama got to start with perfect timing, just as the market was bottoming following a 57% crash and the worst recession since the Great Depression—and he still couldn’t match Trump!  Clinton’s record was slightly better than Trump’s because he got the benefit of the dot-com boom. This is why I said that Trump had “one of the best” records, not the very best.

I know it’s painful to have your worldview shattered, but please try to cope as best you can.  And by the way, everything I’ve written above just further corroborates that it was totally absurd for people to believe, just two months ago, that the stock market was going to zero like in 1917 Russia.  I will therefore reiterate: any money you people lost was your own fault for indulging in Trump Derangement Syndrome, and you should look inside![/quote]
Learn to read a graph.

Obama +181.1%
Trump + 67.3%

I'm probably a lot older than you, and I used to be an actual R, not a RINO - Trump's version of R.  And my stock portfolio did best under Clinton.[/quote]

The PP is going to jump all over you because you don't understand annualizing the returns....[/quote]
Studies have shows that the stock market does better under a Dem than a R potus.[/quote]

That has nothing to do with what the chart on question shows. I didn't independently verify values on the chart, but 67% over 4 years is better than 181% over 8 years when annualized.[/quote]

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