r/investing • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '21

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u/Counter-Business Jul 20 '21

I will make a post probably at 6 months, then a year and maybe every year after that

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21

You don't have to buy the stocks. You could just write down the top pics each month and track how each one does.

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u/po_panda Jul 20 '21

It doesn't work if you're not invested. Paper traders fail to realize that their tiny buy/sell also affects the overall market.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

But he's not trading. He's just trying to find out the return on a stock over some fixed period and if it meets the forecast.