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The S&P 500 just tracks the largest 500 publicly traded companies. So no, it's not difficult to approximate.
by sdinsn 7y ago
The S&P 500 just tracks the largest 500 publicly traded companies. So no, it's not difficult to approximate.
- baot 7y agoYou need to pay commission and spread every time you rebalance your portfolio (daily, if you copy the frequency of modern funds) So at the £5ish/trade of my current broker, that's a cool £912500/year on just commission. For some reason the massively reduced ease of entry to a trading strategy like this is never considered when lauding its historical performance.
- sdinsn 7y ago> daily, if you copy the frequency of modern funds Modern S&P500 funds like SPY or VOO rebalance quarterly FYI