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    When evaluating your trading results, is it proper to compare to a simple buy and hold?

    Risk-adjusted returns (e.g., Sharpe Ratio) can be a useful basis for comparison if you have a decent amount of data (>5 years). However, if I had enough data, I'd rather just compare geometric return, since I really just care about my terminal portfolio value. You need to look at risk as well...
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    Trading shareholder voting rights

    I actually sold my votes for Eagle Materials ($EXP) which closed yesterday. Had about $6K of stock and made $40 on those votes, which comes out to about 0.6%. Not a ton, but better than nothing. https://www.svegroup.com/auction/EXP My withdrawal is currently processing now, but the team...
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    Trading shareholder voting rights

    I recently discovered that you can actually trade shareholder voting rights separately from your shares. I looked into it a little bit and found a site called Shareholder Vote Exchange. I rarely use my votes so I'm inclined to monetize them. No point in just throwing them away I guess. Does...
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    A Collaborative platform for stock picks

    My main concern would be about signal–noise. How/why would this give me an edge? And if it's public + free, won't that edge just get exploited away by others? If there's an edge, you want to keep it private somehow. It might be a good way to source trade ideas from the community, but how much...
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