Now with my enhanced free time, between cover letters I do some coding. I need a standard to measure any stock strategy against. So I came-up with a random buy and sell at >$1 increase. There is so much potential money just with random buys, but buy & hold easily trumps it. To me this explains the people that write a book and say they are an expert. They probably just got lucky. BUY, 1999-10-25, 42.88 SELL, 1999-10-27, 50.0 BUY, 1999-11-03, 66.5 SELL, 1999-11-08, 75.38 BUY, 1999-11-09, 72.25 SELL, 1999-11-18, 77.75 BUY, 1999-11-19, 88.0 SELL, 2000-01-04, 93.0 BUY, 2000-01-07, 87.5 SELL, 2000-01-10, 90.0 BUY, 2000-01-12, 85.88 SELL, 2000-01-14, 91.12 BUY, 2000-01-19, 115.12 SELL, 2000-01-20, 130.75 BUY, 2000-01-21, 120.0 SELL, 2000-01-26, 131.5 BUY, 2000-01-27, 135.5 SELL, 2000-02-03, 156.0 BUY, 2000-02-10, 220.0 SELL, 2000-02-11, 239.5 BUY...
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