Relative Performance vs S&P 500
Attached is the chart of the relative performance of my account vs the S&P 500. As you can see I started during October 2008 seriously and was hit hard straight away. My preference for trading precious metals and commodities gave me a strong recovery early on. But I then made the mistake of trading leveraged natural gas which caused some big losses while the rest of my portfolio was doing well. I’ve made lots of mistakes in the last few years, but I think I’ve learned a lot more from them than my wins to be honest. My trading has stabilized in the last year, with much less wild swings and would have been much better had it not been for the high fees of trading in an ISA. My aim to remedy this is trade less frequently in my ISA and try to catch longer term moves and leave the active trading to my spreadbetting account.
Performance since Oct 08
My ISA account is 7.04%
S&P 500 is -2.42%
=> I am 9.46% above the S&P 500 currently.
Chart is below
Attached is the chart of the relative performance of my account vs the S&P 500. As you can see I started during October 2008 seriously and was hit hard straight away. My preference for trading precious metals and commodities gave me a strong recovery early on. But I then made the mistake of trading leveraged natural gas which caused some big losses while the rest of my portfolio was doing well. I’ve made lots of mistakes in the last few years, but I think I’ve learned a lot more from them than my wins to be honest. My trading has stabilized in the last year, with much less wild swings and would have been much better had it not been for the high fees of trading in an ISA. My aim to remedy this is trade less frequently in my ISA and try to catch longer term moves and leave the active trading to my spreadbetting account.
Performance since Oct 08
My ISA account is 7.04%
S&P 500 is -2.42%
=> I am 9.46% above the S&P 500 currently.
Chart is below
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