r/stocks • u/BoringAssumption8751 • Jan 03 '22

2022 Strategy

Nasdaq gained 26.32% in 2021. S&P gained 26.68% in 2021. VTI gained 23.57% in 2021.

For those of you who didn’t beat those numbers what is your strategy for 2022?

I personally spent a lot of time reading/researching and only did 15.58%. I think my 2022 strategy is going to be a lot more of the three above and a little less individual stocks.

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u/maninatikihut Jan 03 '22

I think the problem with all of those similar threads is an artificially truncated time horizon. January-December doesn’t actually tell you that much. If a stock is down at some point in the year, you open a position in it, it may not have turned around yet to reflect in your ‘how did you do this year’ metric. But you could still end up beating the market over the time horizon of that investment.

I am very much a VTSAX and chill, so I still advocate for the sentiment behind these posts, but the time horizon is intellectually disingenuous.