{"id":36962,"date":"2023-11-24T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/investing\/this-simple-mistake-could-kill-your-profits-as-stocks-rally-into-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:06:49","slug":"this-simple-mistake-could-kill-your-profits-as-stocks-rally-into-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=36962","title":{"rendered":"This Simple Mistake Could Kill Your Profits As Stocks Rally Into 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With stocks on the upswing, the appetite for risk is back! That might<\/em> tempt some folks to abandon sound long-term investing and take a stab at day trading.<\/p>\n

Before we go too far into whether this is a good idea, I\u2019d say that to be a successful day trader, you should be aiming to beat the market \u2026 and a lot of ink has been spilled about how active managers\u2014and I\u2019d include individual investors here\u2014can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s nonsense. Plenty of portfolio managers and individual investors do <\/em>beat the market regularly. Consider closed-end funds (CEFs), for example, which yield 7%+ on average, with plenty sporting histories of beating their benchmarks. That\u2019s especially true when you look at funds focusing on assets outside of stocks: REITs, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, preferred stocks and such.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason why you can\u2019t do it, too. A good place to start is the field you know best. Let\u2019s say you\u2019re an HVAC engineer and you\u2019ve spent your life studying and repairing these systems. Could that expertise help you identify strong HVAC firms better than a Harvard-educated investment banker could?<\/p>\n

Of course. Which is why investment banks hire firms to help them gain the expertise of people skilled in one field. You, as a day trader, might be able to cut out the middleman\u2014the banks collecting all that expertise\u2014and beat the market.<\/p>\n

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Even so, the math says day trading is unlikely to go your way.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you have a million-dollar account and you invest in an index fund with an average annualized return of 8.5%\u2014more or less the stock market\u2019s long-term return, depending on the timeframe.<\/p>\n

For our day-trading scenario, let\u2019s be (very) generous and say a 15% average annualized return is on the table here.<\/p>\n

Bearing these assumptions in mind, the difference in favor of day trading is $65,000\u2014a lot of cash, I\u2019ll admit.<\/p>\n

However, let\u2019s translate that into time. American stock markets are open six-and-a-half hours a day, five days a week, with few days off. That translates to 1,631.5 hours a year of work, meaning you\u2019ve earned a bit less than $40 an hour.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s more than you earn now and you\u2019re 100% confident you won\u2019t make a mistake you can\u2019t recover from\u2014great. But even under these circumstances, we need to be clear that we haven\u2019t<\/em> found financial independence here. We\u2019ve just found a new small business as an asset manager, and it\u2019s a full-time job.<\/p>\n

Of course, any day trader will tell you that they don\u2019t just work during market hours, so in reality that $40 per hour will be less. We can, of course, fix this by earning a bigger return: the day trader who is confident they will earn 150% annually, on average, would make $867 an hour for their labor on a million-dollar investment.<\/p>\n

Impressive, I suppose, although many in finance earn more doing things that are much less stressful. But clearly, no matter how good we are at it or how much money we can make, day trading is a job, and the risk is much greater when it\u2019s with our own money. Which is why we at my CEF Insider<\/em> service continue to see buying quality CEFs, holding for the long term and collecting their high\u2014and often monthly paid\u2014dividends as a much better way to go.<\/p>\n

The Passive-Income Alternative<\/h2>\n

With dividend yields averaging over 7%, CEFs are a great way to translate long-term capital gains from stocks and other assets into an income stream.<\/p>\n

That 7% is actually an understatement: it\u2019s dragged down by a lot of municipal-bond CEFs that yield less, but, since their income is tax-free for most Americans, tend to be the equivalent of around 8% for median US earners (and more for higher earners).<\/p>\n

Equity CEFs, for their part, average an 8.1% yield over the long term, again indicating that CEFs have big income streams that, upon closer look, are actually even bigger.<\/p>\n

This is important because it means we can get the 8.5% annualized profits of the stock market almost entirely in the form of dividends, in the case of many funds. And some do better. Take, for example, the Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX)<\/strong>, a CEF Insider<\/em> holding that holds blue chips like Microsoft
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\n MSFT
\n <\/fbs-ticker> (MSFT), Apple
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\n AAPL
\n <\/fbs-ticker> (AAPL), JPMorgan Chase
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\n <\/fbs-ticker> (V)<\/strong> among its top-10 holdings.<\/p>\n

The fund has earned an 11.9% annualized return over the last decade while exceeding the stock market\u2019s total return.<\/p>\n

ADX has paid out $16.55 per share in dividends over 15 years, but it\u2019s actually much older than that (there\u2019s a longer history of big payouts here\u2014more on that in a minute). Investors who bought then and have collected payouts since have earned a 13.5% dividend yield on their initial investment.<\/p>\n

True, that\u2019s $135,000, still less than our hypothetical day trader who could earn $150,000 on a million invested in our generous previous example. But it\u2019s both more <\/em>than the market\u2019s average and <\/em>it\u2019s come in the form of dividend payments that investors had to spend exactly zero<\/em> hours per year to earn.<\/p>\n

Finally, what we like the most is the lower risk involved here. One bad mistake with day trading can make a trader\u2019s life savings evaporate; ADX has been a profitable company since 1854 and a profitable CEF since 1929. While hundreds of day traders are ruined every year, ADX has held fast through ups and downs over more than a century.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster is the Lead Research Analyst for <\/em>Contrarian Outlook<\/em>. For more great income ideas, click here for our latest report \u201c<\/em>Indestructible Income: 5 Bargain Funds with Steady 10.9% Dividends.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Disclosure: none<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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