RT @commonsenseplay: One of the strangest patterns in the stock market that you don't know about! $SPY $VTI $VOO I recently watched an in…

Breaking: Elon Musk says he’s “comfortable” predicting the "economy will 10× over the next 10 years" - “unless there is WW3.” What does that mean for investors? If the global economy truly expands that fast, corporate earnings and equities likely follow. Historically, economic growth and stock markets move together over long periods. For many investors, that raises a simple question If the whole economy is growing… is the best strategy just owning the market? Broad index funds tracking the S&P 500 (like $SPY or $VOO) automatically capture the companies driving that growth. Big takeaway: If the economy compounds… equities usually do too. Maybe the simple path (index investing) is the winner in the end!

RT @commonsenseplay: One of the strangest patterns in the stock market that you don't know about! $SPY $VTI $VOO I recently watched an in…

RT @commonsenseplay: One of the strangest patterns in the stock market that you don't know about! $SPY $VTI $VOO I recently watched an in…

One of the strangest patterns in the stock market that you don't know about! $SPY $VTI $VOO I recently watched an interview with Samir Varma, a theoretical physicist turned trader hedge-fund manager- he earned his doctorate in particle physics from University of Texas at Austin, and was one of the first to execute profitably quantitative futures strategies. He noted - over 30 years, almost all of $SPY ’s gains happened while the market was CLOSED! I found this super interesting, so I did some digging to see if this was true and here's the data: According to a long-term analysis (1993–2025), the “overnight” strategy for SPY i.e. buy at close, sell at next open, yielded cumulative gains of 1,105%, while the “intraday” strategy, buy at open, sell at close, only delivered about 27% over the same period i.e. - If you bought at the close every day and sold at the next open, your return would be about +1,100% - If you bought at the open and sold at the close, your return is only around +27% Same index, same time period but insanely different returns. This doesn’t mean the market always drops during the day - it just means that the average intraday move has been very small over the long run, while the average overnight move has been much larger. Why might this happen? - News and earnings usually come out after hours - Futures markets react overnight - Big institutions hedge when markets are closed - Risk premium for holding exposure through uncertainty This pattern shows up again and again in the data. Why this is not a free trading strategy? because costs and spreads can wipe out the edge if you try to time it. But for long-term investors, it highlights something important: - A big part of the compounding has come from simply holding overnight. - The market often moves the most while you’re not watching, a lesson for intraday index traders ;)

I measure my wealth against the S&P 500, not USD or CPI. Over the past 12 months, my portfolio grew +93.5%. If your net worth went up 10% in 2025 while the S&P gained 16%, you actually fell behind. Indexes like $VTI , $SPY , $VOO are just the baseline. https://t.co/PVehj8oqDN

MUST READ FOR ALL NEW/YOUNG INVESTORS OUT THERE! DO NOT BUY SINGLE SPECULATIVE STOCKS IN THE HOPE OF ACHIEVING HOME OWNERSHIP! This is how you lose everything. 99% of people should dollar cost average into index funds and call it a day! You can buy these for the rest of your life and beat 99% of traders. 1. $VOO: Low-cost S&P 500 tracker for the biggest U.S. companies. 2. $VGT: Concentrated U.S. tech sector (Apple, Nvidia, etc.). 3. $VV: Broad large-cap U.S. stocks beyond the top 500. 4. $IWM: Small-cap U.S. stocks (Russell 2000). 5. $VTI: Total U.S. stock market (large + mid + small). 6. $QQQ: Nasdaq-100: heavy tech & growth stocks. 7. $SPY: Most liquid S&P 500 tracker since 1993. Put 10-30% of your paycheck in some of these. Your money will double every 4-7 years.