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Does investment account size matter?

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Does account size matter? Many people always tell you that in order to measure your returns or even compare your returns with other people, use percentage instead of the absolute amount as it is fairer and easier to compare. However is this really the truth?

Very often, we would say we earn a return of capital of example 6% after this trade of xxx days.

This 6% seems simple but it is not exactly simple.

6% of 10k = 600
6% of 100k = 6000
6% of 1 mil = 60000
6% of 10 mil = 600000 = 600k
……and so on.

DO you get the story?

Two different investors may say that they have 6% gain, but their absolute gain is different.

Investor A may have 100k in capital and earn 6000 in that trade. However, investor B may have 10 mil in capital and earn 600k gain for 6%. 600k – 6000 = 594000 which is much more than the capital of investor A. In extreme case, even if investor A manage to pick multibaggers and earn 100% in trade, it is only 100k as compared to 600k.

In addition, don’t forget that you can diversify or plan the allocation of money easier if you have huge capital. Assuming that you only plan to have no more 10% of your entire portfolio in any stock and each purchase is example 10k.

With huge capital (10 mil), you can keep buying at ALL supports. If this support breaks, you can buy at next support and the amount of money you allocated to this stock still never exceed the planned 10% of your portfolio. Once the market starts to recover, you can slowly sell in batches at different resistance and huat. However, if you have limited capital (100k), you can only buy at one support. If this support break, you cannot add more as it may exceed 10% of your portfolio and need to wait very long to repent and earn profit.

That’s why you see some bloggers can keep buying and keep selling at many levels of supports and resistance while some cannot. Once the price is good, they can keep buy buy. And when they price become super good like crisis level, they can WHACK! BUT can normal retail investor do this?

THEY CANT!

If you don’t have bullets. It’s sad to see DBS at $10 while you have no bullets to whack. It’s sad to see mlog at $0.6 while you have no bullets to whack. Crisis is there, chance to earn big wealth is there but you have no money. Sad….

Thus what is the moral of the story?

Account size does matter!!! Especially in the current market.

Work hard and increase your account size when young! Delay gratification? Don’t get marry? eat bread drink water? But there is a limit to do so, please remember to Careyourpresent in the mean time.

A gentle note:

Bear just starting (see this post). The worse has yet to come. Please learn to space out and learn how to do nothing (this post of doing nothing also apply to pace out your buys in bear market.) Of course, the best is you have unlimited bullets and can buy at every support level (provided if the lines TA, still work in bear market…)

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When you are young and working, you exchange time for money. When you are old, you can have lots of money but you can’t buy time back, especially the things that you have missed while busying striking out in career. Of course, if you love your career, and consciously know that you are missing out the first time your child walk or talk, that’s ok, but if you are the other spectrum, please do something about it.

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