Fools of USA

Team Holzhammer: Armando Holzknecht und David Stelzhammer Against the thought of having special skills to outperform the market, this portfolio aims for a positive return over the time of the competition by simply randomising almost every possible choice which could occur when one is making a portfolio. This means that everything, so the stock selection, the time of trading, the weighting of the stocks in the portfolio as well as buy, sell or hold choices are simply done by a random choice computation in R. Important to mention here is that we only consider to have stocks or passive investments in this portfolio as the chance that we mess up right at the beginning with random option certificates is quite high. Also, as we have to follow the rules of the trading competition of the ABI, we only have securities of the US securities in our portfolio. We are making this portfolio to see how randomness could perform particularly in our competition and we want to know if the US ,indeed, is fooled by randomness or not.