A friend forwarded the card with the steepest line on the marketplace. Five stocks. 896 percent in five years. His question was the obvious one. Why is everyone not in this.
Because concentration is not a return dial you turn up. It is a position size you have to survive. The same five names that returned almost fourteen times the index over five years also handed you a 24.72 percent hole and weeks that moved ten.
5Y CAGR . backtest
58.34pct
The steepest backtested return on the marketplace, and the deepest drawdown to match. One number gets screenshotted. The other is the one you actually live with. The link between them is on the next card.
Past performance . backtest only . not a guarantee