YTD 2025 Networth tracking thread

[Trader11]

My job is stressful enough. Don't want to to add any more from personal trading

That lord guy who bought Nvidia is retired. While people are working and missing out opportunities

 

[Trader11]

 

[limster]

You trade on precious metals?

Went to check my portfolio performance since 2020. Wasn't as impressive as yours since I only dca into iwda and isac but good enough for me to have a decent peace of mind (except for the drawdown in 2022 but could be worse if not for the etf)

Your portfolio performance graph starts 1 Jan 2020.

His portfolio performance starts from July 2020, just after the COVID crash. So if he wasn't vested before July 2020, he wouldn't have suffered any COVID losses, so his market timing is very good. Not many people have that skill (I never sell so I always feel the full impact of crashes... )

Since you were vested before the COVID crash you had to spend time recovering the losses. So did I - my 2020 was spent recovering my losses....

 

[stanlawj]

His portfolio performance starts from July 2020, just after the COVID crash. So if he wasn't vested before July 2020, he wouldn't have suffered any COVID losses,

Before Covid 2020, my account was invested through DBS Vickers and also crashed with Covid. They don't have any Portfolio Analyst kind of function.
IBKR SG branch did not exist until July 2020 which is already midway through the 2020 bull run. I pulled everything including profits out of DBS Vickers into IBKR SG progressively from mid 2020 to early 2021.

Global brokerage firm Interactive Brokers Group opens Singapore office​

https://www.straitstimes.com/busine...eractive-brokers-group-opens-singapore-office
Jul 08, 2020, 02:04 PM

SINGAPORE - Global brokerage firm Interactive Brokers Group said on Wednesday (July 8) that it has launched a Singapore entity - Interactive Brokers Singapore - and opened an office in the Marina Bay Financial District.
Investors here will be able to invest globally in stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds from a single integrated investment account with the brokerage, it said in a statement.
It can now offer Singapore stocks to investors here and directly market its offerings. It also connects to 135 markets in 33 countries.

 

[highsulphur]

Your portfolio performance graph starts 1 Jan 2020.

His portfolio performance starts from July 2020, just after the COVID crash. So if he wasn't vested before July 2020, he wouldn't have suffered any COVID losses, so his market timing is very good. Not many people have that skill (I never sell so I always feel the full impact of crashes... )

Since you were vested before the COVID crash you had to spend time recovering the losses. So did I - my 2020 was spent recovering my losses....

I was holding to about 30% cash when covid started so I deployed my cash. The dip in 2020 even affect me as much as 2022

 

[highsulphur]

That lord guy who bought Nvidia is retired. While people are working and missing out opportunities

Thats fine. My networth is enough for me not too stress too much over individual stock trading

 

[stanlawj]

If my memory served me right, KQ evolved from day trading to swing. Most of his gains came from here. Eventually he went to long term position trading once he reached multi-million$ level as he became too big for the market to absorb his earlier strategies.

 

[limster]

Thats fine. My networth is enough for me not too stress too much over individual stock trading

The thing about high networth is there is a more optionality in how to deploy your money.

Like you have pointed out, you were 30% cash/cash-equivalent in 2020. I haven't calculated my actual percentage but I have a fair bit of cash in T-bill, SSB, cash management accounts, and some fixed income ETFs.

If I wanted to take more risk in a hope of getting more return, I can simply readjust the equity-cash/fixed income ratio in my portfolio and buy more ETFs.

 

[highsulphur]

The thing about high networth is there is a more optionality in how to deploy your money.

Like you have pointed out, you were 30% cash/cash-equivalent in 2020. I haven't calculated my actual percentage but I have a fair bit of cash in T-bill, SSB, cash management accounts, and some fixed income ETFs.

If I wanted to take more risk in a hope of getting more return, I can simply readjust the equity-cash/fixed income ratio in my portfolio and buy more ETFs.

If you want to be even more aggressive, can even remortgage your home during a crisis to increase equity allocation

 

[limster]

If you want to be even more aggressive, can even remortgage your home during a crisis to increase equity allocation

yup, more assets =more options . margin financing also possible I guess (IBKR still the cheapest?)

 

[Trader11]

Thats fine. My networth is enough for me not too stress too much over individual stock trading

100Million?

 

[highsulphur]

100Million?

I don't need 100m to get by

Let's say the annual average return should be able to cover my salary/expenses now

 

[d5dude]

That lord guy who bought Nvidia is retired. While people are working and missing out opportunities

That lord guy is a long term investor, not trader. It just so happens that he got lucky (his words, not mine) with his stock pick.

The average guy who is trading in and out of stocks frequently will never score a 200 bagger like Nvidia or Amazon.

 

[highsulphur]

That lord guy is a long term investor, not trader. It just so happens that he got lucky (his words, not mine) with his stock pick.

The average guy who is trading in and out of stocks frequently will never score a 200 bagger like Nvidia or Amazon.

Oh that edmw who shared he bought meta and Nvidia?

 

[d5dude]

Oh that edmw who shared he bought meta and Nvidia?

Yea.

 

[highsulphur]

Yea.

Thats akin to striking toto

 

[Trader11]

That lord guy is a long term investor, not trader. It just so happens that he got lucky (his words, not mine) with his stock pick.

The average guy who is trading in and out of stocks frequently will never score a 200 bagger like Nvidia or Amazon.

I don't think it's luck.

There were people like William O'Neil, Livermore, Baruch, Gerald Loeb who repeatedly buy multiple baggers

 

[limster]

I don't think it's luck.

There were people like William O'Neil, Livermore, Baruch, Gerald Loeb who repeatedly buy multiple baggers

if its not luck, then its a skill level beyond your ability. in which case, not much point talking about them as normal investors don't have the skill to emulate them.

More relevant to talk about more "normal" investors and what you can learn from them - so frankly, its more useful if you share the stories behind your multi-baggers, because you are a more normal investor, so maybe we can learn from your thought process.

similar analogy to running... most normal runners don't benefit from studying (or talking about) Kipchoge or other elite runners. The training methods of other 'normal' runners with faster times are more relevant to them.

 

[d5dude]

I don't think it's luck.

There were people like William O'Neil, Livermore, Baruch, Gerald Loeb who repeatedly buy multiple baggers

I'm talking about 100-200 baggers (without leverage), not multi baggers like 2-10 baggers, that kind of thing is not uncommon since very speculative stonks can 10x in a very short period of time e.g Gamestop, Tesla, etc.

Also Livermore went bankrupt 3 times and he shot himself dead, dying penniless (outside of a 5m trust fund that was untouchable), I dun think he is a fine example of how the average person should invest/trade.

There are very few people who can consistently beat the market over the long run, let alone hit 100-200 baggers (which is likely just luck), its very easy to come to a different conclusion from reading books like "Market Wizards". These people could be extremely skilled (difficult to emulate) or they might have just been very lucky (impossible to emulate in which case), nobody really knows.

 

[lordlad0]

Wait....did people summoned me in here?