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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rayvt ✧☼🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Scatter of Dartboard Screen Results
Date: 07/26/23 10:13 PM
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I bought, lrgf, mtum, and intf, which are multifactor and momentum funds, and I got crushed by the s and p.

Do this--go to some finance site and pull up the chart of VOO or SPY for the last 10 years, then add the top 10 stocks of the S&P500 to the chart. What you will see is that a few of those top 10 stocks shot to the moon, thereby pulling the S&P500 up up up.

If you didn't have a significant holding in those stocks, you would have fallen behind the S&P500. Those top 10 holdings are 30% of the S&P500.

Yahoo Finance: Chart VOO
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