2024 Retrospective

Looking back at the year

The porfolios did relatively well for 2024. Both SleepWell and Insomniac both performed as expected from their past returns. The Playground suffered some trouble keeping up in the later half of the year. It still has had a decent year but compared to the S&P 500(24.01%) and NASDAQ(30.78%) it underperformed on raw returns. However drawdowns were more contained and managable.

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Getting Started

How to make the best of whats here

On Starting

Portfolio APR 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year
Playground 41.26% 18.88% 42.94% 52.78%
SleepWell 12.31% 9.16% 6.64% 8.65%

The two portfolios, Playground and SleepWell attempt to achieve different objectives.

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Using leveraged ETFs

Why they can be useful

Media

Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are a type of ETF that use financial derivatives and debt to amplify returns. They are designed to provide investors with a multiple of the daily return of a benchmark index, such as the S&P 500. For example, a 3x leveraged S&P 500 ETF, (SPXL) aims to deliver three times the return of the benchmark index on a daily basis.

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