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Isn't $99 million way more than you could ever spend on personal expenses?

Ok. So $99 million in cash? You wouldn't consider that a waste? You wouldn't even buy bonds or anything?

You won and took a lump sum of $200 million. What would you do with it? Would you use it in your trading account?

Maybe not exact same rates and terms, but same principal.

That is called margin. Even retail investors can use margin. It's just like taking out equity if you own real estate, or any other type of secured loan. But how do they know things will keep growing at 10-20%? It can lead to big trouble if you start defaulting on margin loans.

Read my paragraph about opportunity cost. It's not a debate.

And none of his posts were relevant to the original post. Also, if you can't use your profits to invest in something else, then it is not the same. Unless you're going to say he can use margin. What good is a bar of gold sitting next to you if you can't use it at the grocery store? And unless...

Well either way... I have better places to put cash to make it grow faster than the stock market would. And I would get the cash back and be able to do it again at least once per year. So only leveraged trading interests me because that's the only way I could beat those returns. But that...

Profits from his fully owned businesses and dividends.

Because you don't make money until you sell.

That's not trading at all. Unless you're just suggesting you keep your day job, or try to live off dividends.

As you all should know, one of the fed's main jobs is to keep the inflation rate at close to 2%. Is this an arbitrary number? In that case, could it create investment opportunities because they are creating a fake situation in which inflation is mandated to stay near 2%? Similar to how people...

I think a lot of the people on this forum are more interested in leverage Trading.

I didn't claim to pick it. My point was that it's impossible. And many people's good results may just be luck anyway. Maybe they think they're good at roulette when their color gets picked.

Actually it was unintentional. But similarly... Could anyone predict that Boeing stock would crash? (Bad joke?)

Not if your business loses money lol. There's no sure thing and everything is easy in hindsight. Every year, there's a handful of stocks that make over 100%. Look at how much Domino's Pizza (DPZ) has risen in the past 11 years. Seems obvious now? But there is literally NO WAY to forecast...

And if you can see through that, doesn't that give you an edge?

So he's just a better economist. I've never listened to traditional economists either.

No. That's fundamental analysis of a business, balance sheet, etc. Technicals is like moving averages, Bollinger Bands, etc.

The intrinsic value of the company. How much free cash flow it will earn in the future.