Performance Benchmark Instruments?

[deaddog]

tsx perhaps?
Are you also going short? If so then a basket of long/short hedge funds normalized for leverage.

@longandshort would be the best at making suggestions. He spends a lot of time understanding the true value of alpha.

I'm a long only trader. Either long or cash.

Not sure about a basket of Hedge funds. Remember the Buffet bet where he did a buy and hold of the S&P against a basket of hedge funds over a period of 10 years. Million bucks and I think he got paid off early.

If I followed @longandshort I'd end up with analysis paralysis.

 

[kmiklas]

$SPXTR (S&P 500 Total Return Index)
$RUATR (Russell 3000 Total Return Index)

Don't use the price return versions unless you want to overstate your excess returns.

Kindly explain... you lost me a bit here. Is that because the price return versions pay a dividend?

 

[newwurldmn]

I'm a long only trader. Either long or cash.

Not sure about a basket of Hedge funds. Remember the Buffet bet where he did a buy and hold of the S&P against a basket of hedge funds over a period of 10 years. Million bucks and I think he got paid off early.

If I followed @longandshort I'd end up with analysis paralysis.

Then tsx is probably the best benchmark.

I can assure you he’s not stuck in his own analysis.

 

[deaddog]

I can assure you he’s not stuck in his own analysis.

Oh I know he isn't. His system apparently works very well for him. It's just not for me. I like to keep things simple. The more information I have the more likely it is that I'll be influenced to stay in a trade to long.

 

[murray t turtle]

Swing Trader.. I use SPY because most traders, whether day or swing, don't seem to be able to outperform a simple buy and hold strategy.

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SPY;
+ QQQ.
I pay my taxes,+ sometimes a CPA\but i seldom use a negative benchmark like GOVT etf