What Is An Average Ytd For A 15k Stock Portfolio

What % ROI do top hedge funds average?

Hello,One common theme among nearly all hedge funds is their market direction neutrality; they expect to make money whether the market trends up or down. In this way, a hedge fund management team resembles traders more than classic investors. Some mutual funds employ these types of techniques more than others, and not all mutual funds engage in actual hedging.There is dozen of type of Hedge Funds. Each one select the strategy fitting the best to the founders and the markets they knows.Hedge funds can pursue a varying degree of strategies including macro, equity, relative value, distressed securities and activism. A macro hedge fund invests in stocks, bonds and currencies in hopes of profiting from changes in macroeconomic variables such as global interest rates and countries’ economic policies.Performance are evolving other the time and years, and really depends on one side of the strategy and on another side of the market behavior and the current economical situation. Some strategies are working better in a trending market, some other during difficult situation.You can have below a look of the performance for each type of hedge funds.If you want you can check by curiosity below the top 10 hedge funds last year on the market, will give you a good overview of the size and the growth of top actors.Cheers,PipsFishermanDo not hesitate to follow me, will be a pleasure to get you on board!

How do I choose stocks for intraday trading?

So, many people have been allured by the Indian stock markets, especially because of the incredible returns they have delivered in past year. On one hand, there are stocks like RCOM which went up by 50–60% in just 2 sessions while Infibeam which fell more than 40 % in the last session.On account of such moves, most people think what if we can catch such moves and make a killing. Unfortunately, the possibility of getting such stock moves on a daily basis is not possible. But volatility is what day traders seek.Based on the question, here are the 4 stocks which I believe one can trade daily or on most days to get amazing returns. Remember by trade I mean both short and long. Before I mention about that, lets understand, which stocks are the best when it comes to intraday trade.For intraday trade the best stocks are those who demonstrate the following qualities-Trade trending stocks. These have more possibilities of breakouts.Trade highly liquid stocks so that on a day’s level you get a decent entry and exit.Trade stocks which have decent volatility (not too high) between 2–4 % on most days.Trade stocks which are medium beta stocks.Now, based on these parameters and technical analysis here are the 4 stocks which one can actually keep in their portfolio and make decent gains.Reliance capitalTrending - YesLiquid- Yes. Average volume 6809 KVolatility -9.57% changeBeta- MediumHDILTrending - YesLiquid- Yes. Average volume 18935 KVolatility - 7.99 % changeBeta- Medium to highFortis Health careTrending- Yes mostlyLiquid- Yes. Average volume 9282 KVolatility- 6.33% changeBeta-MediumDLFTrending- YesLiquid- Yes. Average volume 9430 KVolatility- 5.73 % changeBeta- HighSo, you can see that the following stocks can give decent day moves and help in making good intraday gains. For reference, here’s what we made in the last session on HDIL -45000 gains in a single day swing is never bad. Insin’t it?Now some words of caution based on my decade’s experience in the markets-No one makes gains EVERYDAY in intraday.You can’t trade the same stocks all your life. You need to SHUFFLE with changing times.Discipline and stop loss are the key in intra day trading.I hope this answer helps. In case you wish to know more about investments, trading and strategies, don’t forget to subscribe my recently launched youtube channel ( Abhishek Kar’s Academy ) and also like+follow me on Abhishek Kar . If you like the answers, make sure you leave a review there. Always happy to help.AK Trade Guru

If Berkshire Hathaway stocks gives a 20% return, why should one invest through Robo-advisor apps, which gives only 10-11% returns?

The best days or highest return days of Berkshire-Hathaway are in the past, in my view. Mr. Buffett is a remarkable man that has arguably the best track record of investing - ever. Mr. Buffett is also 87 years old. His partner, Charlie Munger will turn 94 on January 1, 2018. The two that built Berkshire-Hathaway into a conglomerate will be fortunate to be alive in 10 years and won’t be running the company anymore.No one knows, except for the board-of-directors, who will succeed Buffett and Munger. Some say AjitJain, who runs the insurance side of BRK, or maybe Greg Abel, who runs the energy side of the business. Either way, neither is likely to generate 20% returns annually. The company is just too large for that.As a shareholder of BRK.B, I am interested in the line of succession and the company’s future plans. In my opinion, the company will likely to be broken up into component parts, to an extent. BRK may also pay a dividend with its high cash flow. It is sitting on $100 billion as of December, 2017. A sell off of some component parts may be worth more than the whole - and that’s good. A dividend payment may be a one-time thing or ongoing, but we don’t know.There is also another wrinkle to consider. How will the tax changes that were passed into law the other day affect BRK? Good, better or not so much. I’m not well-versed enough in tax laws or BRK books to know that.If Robo-advisors only paid 10% to 12% this year, it seriously lagged the S&P 500 which is up between 19% and 20% as of December 21, 2017. BRK is up a little more than 22%, YTD.Forget about past performance and consider what is feasible in the next 5 years or more. I’m not selling my BRK.B, but I’m not adding at this level, either.There are many issues to consider and prior performance is only one.

How do I invest USD 100 every month into the S&P 500 index fund as Warren Buffett suggested?

Regrettably, the prior 7 answers are either incorrect or misunderstood the question.There are two ways to do it if you reside in the US:Automatic Investment PlanGo to the Schwab site (Charles Schwab: Index Mutual Funds), open a brokerage account and sign up for their Automatic Investment Plan (AIP). You will need to give them your bank account information, pick the Fund you want to invest in (SWPPX is their S&P500 index fund) and complete their authorization. And that’s it. Everything else is electronically automated.Schwab will then pull $100 from your bank account** on a certain day every month and automatically invest it in their index fund. There are dozens of other Mutual Fund companies and brokerage firms will do the same thing, but few if any will let you start with only $100 per month and do it cheaply and give very good customer service.[Note: If you don’t have a bank account, many employers will permit Schwab or another company to deduct the money from your paycheck, through an Automatic Investing Payroll Deduction.]2. Employer retirement plan (such as a 401k or 403b)Most retirement plans contain an S&P500 index fund. If your plan has one, the plan will automatically deduct the money from your paycheck every pay period. Retirement Plans are an especially attractive way to do this, because of the tax benefit: if you invest $100 per month, your paycheck will only be reduced by about $80. That’s hard to beat, any way you slice it.[BTW, your employer may also offer matching contributions too. Note: this is a retirement plan, so you need to kiss this money goodbye until age 59.5. If you take it out before then, Uncle Sam will want his $20 back, plus another $10 for good measure]Good luck.

What is your success story in Indian stock market?

I started investing only from March last year 2016. But from Jan-16 only I had started reading about stock market. There was no talk or no influence from anyone whatsoever that I tried my luck in stock market. One day I was just searching for ways to become rich in Quora and I find most people talking about investing in stock market.I thought I should also try.By the time I started investing in Mar-16, I already knew many of stock market terminologies like PE ratio , market cap, eps, book value etc. Since then I have been reading many books, magazines, reading online stuffs, always looking for opportunities in parallel to putting my money in market.I have been sitting on a cool profit of 4.7 lacs now on my investment of 13.8 lacs(close to about 34% profit.)Apart from this I have already pocketed a profit of 80K so far(including dividends.)Not sure have been lucky or I have good quality of sniffing good stocks at right time, since It has been only one year and I have heard stories of people making profit in starting but eventually making a loss to never touch the market again.Still I have to go through some crucial bear phases of market to test my patience and I have to watch out myself how I perform during those phases.I have been through the demonetization phase though where my profit almost came to nil but I never sold any of my holdings and it was rewarded when market kicked off from new year.The major stocks in my portfolio are below:REC: buy price : 80, Current price : 170Karnataka bank: buy price: 87, current price: 165GMDC: buy price: 68, current price : 150Ashok leyland : buy price : 90, Current price : 100Spicejet : buy price- 63, Current price : 130 (sold a big chunk of it at this price already)Welspun India: buy price : 56, Current price : 80Suzlon energy: buy price : 16, Current price : 19Renaissance Jewellery: buy price: 136. current price: 173It is always tempting to sell everything now, pocket all the profit and sit back to look for opportunities, since I sub-consciously fear that I might lose a major portion of paper profit if market turns around for some reason. But still I want to experience the phase where may be I could see all my profits washing away before making a U-turn again.