Beat The Couch

What it does

A free market timing game. $10,000, two secret years of real S&P 500 history, one button: buy or sell. Your opponent is a couch that does nothing. It usually wins.

$10,000. Two secret years of real market history. One button: BUY (ride it) or SELL (hide). Your opponent is a couch. It buys once and never sells. Beat it. ? Same game, same button, different history under the cushions. Sign in and the other couches open. Free. In 2008, Warren Buffett bet a million dollars that a plain S&P 500 index fund would beat a hand-picked portfolio of hedge funds over ten years, net of fees. Protégé Partners, professional fund pickers, took the other side. Ten years later the index fund had gained 125.8%. The hedge funds averaged roughly 36%. It was not close, and the losers conceded early. The professionals traded constantly, charged handsomely, and lost to a…from beatthecouch.com

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