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Hoffy, Yes you could use a bit of survivorship bias to do just that, which is why a listed fund like AFI, ARG, or STW does not perform as well as the indexes and the often quoted returns from the stockmarket. bye

Hi Sunfish, No it was not, but Woolworths was listed,until it was taken over by Adsteam, who went broke, and was sold by the receivers back to the public for new money. My point was, that here is a 'good' company that if you had owned it for the long term, by buying 25 years ago, you...

Hi Hoffy, I suppose if you had bought Woolworths 25 years ago you would have done OK. bye

Hi David, Options are a leveraged investment(gamble), so are futures contracts. What you're planning to do is very similar; betting $78k that the market will be above 5325 in 3 years time AND that the provider of your bet will still be in business. This is the huge hole in any...

Hi all, David, if your are going to spend $157,000, why not just buy call options on the SPI with the money instead?? You're buying the index in the future and cutting out the suits. You could also just buy the future dated call options on each of the top 10-20 companies for that sort of...