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Gutted

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Early this year, in anticipation of (possibly………) become a more normal human and actually just going LONG stocks, I put together a quarter million-dollar hypothetical portfolio spread evenly across twenty-five $10,000 positions. The profits on this got up to something like 60% annualized, but in recent days, they have crumbled away to effectively nothing. In a perverse way, you have no idea how happy this makes me.