SoullessAutomaton comments on Shane Legg on prospect theory and computational finance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 23 June 2009 09:33:49AM *  0 points [-]

I invested £500 in the stock market on 2003, and 9 months ago I withdrew £850.

Wouldn't that be 2003-2008, i.e., five years?

That's about 11.2% annual return, if I'm mathing correctly this early in the morning.

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Comment author: andrewc 29 June 2009 11:57:26AM 0 points [-]

Depends on what you bought. More than a few stocks had the last few years of growth wiped off them last year, and that includes many well hedged managed funds. Your youthful assessment of the risks was perhaps better than you give it credit for.

What would the original investment be worth right now had you not cashed it in?