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Thanks again, DragonTrader. I greatly appreciate it. BigHog: Thanks for your rather useless post. I never said I trade news. I said I read and follow a lot of news to get ideas, then do my research and go on my merry way. Regarding fundamental vs. technical, pick the method that works best...

So DragonTrader, let's say I have done 1000 trades and my annual avg. performance is 30 percent. How effective would you say is the strategy? Thanks.

Okay, I understand why the number of trades now matter. Thanks for the clarification. Even though I can't do anything about it, but I will now focus my attention to the number of trades I do and how my performance measures accordingly. Thanks very much. That helped a lot.

LOL, yeah, the name change might be a good idea.

Thanks for the tip. I wil check him out. And this is what I've been saying all along, I'm not a trader, I'm an investor. I'm not at all good at trading, so I don't even play that game.

I consider the SP500 the market and it's 14.9 YTD return. I don't care whether or not I beat the market, but that's generally the consensus when talking about funds and how they did compared to the market. I was just curious. So essentially it all boils down to long-term returns to add...

Well, yes, I can agree with you there, TraderDragon. A lot of people fall in the right place at the right time and get rich. Since things fall back to the number of trades. Let's say I continue to long-invest (10 - 15 trades per year) for the next 10 years, and the number of trades wouldn't...

I'm not saying, nor pretending, that I'm a genious when it comes to investments. I would probably need a decade of 30 percent+ return to prove to myself and others that it's not sheer luck. Also, rolling a dice vs. stocks is nothing. Rolling a dice means nothing. You can roll it for 10 years...

TraderDragon: I'm not trying to toot my ow horn. All I'm trying to figure out is - why is it (other than the bull market argument) that I can spend a small amout of time and do relatively well, yet pro money managers can't do well when that's their job. If I consider myself lucky, then how...

You may be right, but I don't read news just to keep up with my portfolio. It's actually a hobby of mine. So technically, I'm making money while enjoying what I like to do already. I don't think you can do a cost/benefit analysis with the total time spent to overall portfolio performance. A...

My performance remain unchanged. The Q4 didn't add much value. The periods you mentioned didn't matter at all. I think the most value my portolio ever dropped was 3.5 percent after going up 17 percent.

Thanks for the replies. It may very well be related to a bull market, but I have held positions in a lot of industries. It can't be a bull market across all industries, could it? And in the last two years, since I have started real trading (15 positions in all), there hasn't been any...

Here's the thing. I don't understand why it's so hard to beat the market. When I go online at some of these financial sites like Forbes or Kiplinger, they are impressed with 20% per year return on their investment. I'm not a trader. I invest for the long-time, usually no more than a year...

Raystonn: I was aware of options and futures, but some reason, they don't get me excited at all. I'm more of a stocks person. Here's basically how I think: I'm fine playing the waiting game (the traditional buy low, sell high), but if the opportunity strikes, I'm willing to exit at...

Thanks for the reply. I have only started trading officially three months ago. Before that, I was practicing using a fake portfolio for about two years and for what it's worth, I made an annual gain of 25% the first year and 30% the next year. What other investment vehicles would you suggest...

I invested about $2,500 in Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) about three months and have seen a 10 percent increase in my portfolio value, which is not too bad considering that I've only started doing this for three months now. I'm generally patient and would definitely like to hold on to the stock for...