How Much Return Did You Get from Shares during 2020?

Ash-Say on 18/01/2021 - 21:43
Last edited 18/01/2021 - 22:00

2020 has been roller coaster for majority of people.

Lot of people lost jobs, but the government provided subsidy to keep things afloat and interest rates were significantly lower. This provoked people to invest in shares, as the saving account wasn't returning much profit. Most of these shares returned fantabulous results within last 12 months. For example, APT, SZL, Tesla, Amazon, VUL

How much return did you get and what was your strategy on entry/exit?

If you lost money, why did you do wrong?

Personally I am not a big investor, and made some bad choices in Aug 2020 where I bought Zip and SZL at peak. Currently sitting on -$5k.

Poll Options

  • 28
    0 - $5k
  • 4
    $5k - $10k
  • 5
    $10k - $20k
  • 3
    $20k - $30k
  • 3
    $30k - $40k
  • 2
    $50k - $70k
  • 1
    $100k
  • 0
    $150k
  • 2
    $250k
  • 2
    $500k
  • 46
    >$1mil
Financial

Comments

  • Ezekiel2320 on 18/01/2021 - 21:44
    +5

    $0.00

  • Hellcrusher3304 on 18/01/2021 - 21:47
    +6

    Where's the option for negative?

    • Ash-Say on 18/01/2021 - 21:54

      I just tried to update the poll but it's not accepting new options :(

      • Scrooge McDuck on 19/01/2021 - 03:42
        +3

        My friend made loads, but I personally lost enough that my taxable income is zero.

        Nice try ATO!

  • ribze1 on 18/01/2021 - 21:53
    +5

    To be clear, it's only a profit if you sold.

    • giu on 19/01/2021 - 09:34
      +3

      Minus CGT

  • ihbh on 18/01/2021 - 21:54
    +18

    What a silly poll. Why not make it % return? Clearly a novice investor.

    E.g. someone investing $100m is likely to make > $1m, whereas someone investing $100k will have to be as lucky as f to do the same.

    • Ash-Say on 18/01/2021 - 21:56

      Who has $100m to invest?

      • ihbh on 18/01/2021 - 22:40
        +1

        Why don't you scale everything down by 100?

      • blighst on 18/01/2021 - 23:12
        +2

        me

      • dust on 19/01/2021 - 10:22

        You don't? I thought all OzBargainers made $300k a year?

    • Youfah Mizzum on 18/01/2021 - 23:29
      +1

      Quite correct.
      No point asking what people made if we don't know their capital invested is.

      So I made $0 to $5k. Did I invest $5k (and made 100% return)? Did I invest $10k, $100k? $200k?

    • dailynotsomail on 18/01/2021 - 23:39

      silly yep….. poll for the sake of being able to add one

    • cloudy on 19/01/2021 - 10:10

      To be fair, a balance of % and $ is needed. So many people investing small amounts can make huge % but still be fairly meaningless returns.

      But also as you said, if you invest in large amounts a it’s easy to make a few hundred K

  • bargainervic on 18/01/2021 - 21:54
    +2

    Bought some bank shares when prices were low. Better Off with around 4000 in 6 months.

  • elgrande on 18/01/2021 - 21:57
    +2

    Wheres the option for >$5mil?

    Would hate for those people to miss out..

  • Tiredman on 18/01/2021 - 23:40
    +1

    Fire sale on everything this year. Too bad didn't have too much cash lying around. All tied up but still made some decent money.

  • SF3 on 18/01/2021 - 23:52

    If you lost money, why did you do wrong?

    Need to get a new Crystal ball, thought I could trust the old one, but it failed on me.

  • conan2000 on 19/01/2021 - 02:04
    -1

    Somewhere between return of $25-30k from about $65k-70k investment. I was planning to buy an investment property when COVID hit. I had more confidence in the Aussie shares that tanked than the property market at the time. So put the deposit towards that. I had just done an equity release on our property to fund it, so took advantage of the market dropping.

  • Caped Baldy on 19/01/2021 - 09:07

    I'm down quite a few percent

  • Scantu on 19/01/2021 - 10:21
    +2

    8.82%, VDHG

  • Trying2SaveABuck on 19/01/2021 - 21:03
    +1

    39 people have voted for >1m this is how you know you cant believe everything you read on the internet

  • SBOB on 19/01/2021 - 22:01

    This provoked people to invest in shares, as the saving account wasn't returning much profit. Most of these shares returned fantabulous results within last 12 months. For example, APT, SZL, Tesla, Amazon, VUL

    thats a very selective list of 'most of these shares'…

  • Ughhh on 13/02/2021 - 14:11

    Personally I am not a big investor, and made some bad choices in Aug 2020 where I bought Zip and SZL at peak. Currently sitting on -$5k.

    Hope you didn't sell z1p. >$10 now.

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