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How you could've turned $1000 into billions by perfectly trading S&P500 in 2014

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Re: How you could've turned $1000 into billions by perfectly trading S&P500 in 2014

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QZ did the same thing last year, and the "analysis" is still flawed... as the investment size, specially towards the end of year, is in many occasions over the market cap of the company being invested.

A flaw we admitted...in both years

Of course once you’ve made enough money it would be impossible to put it all into one stock without drastically affecting the stock’s price. Before long, you’d find that there were not enough shares to buy, or that you had purchased an entire company—a situation that we ignored for our analysis.