The 2019 Fantasy Investing season is over and the last month saw a flurry of activity that (unfortunately for me) lead to somebody else besides me leading the standings for the first time all season. That’s right, at the 11th hour Adrian’s portfolio (courtesy of the hard-charging AMD) zoomed past mine to snag a surprisingly comfortable margin of victory in the first ever fantasy investing season. Congratulations to Adrian on his victory!

But congratulations are also in store for everybody who participated. The S&P 500 returned around 28% for 2019, which means that every player who picked an individual stock (versus funds designed to match the market) managed to beat the market. In fact, all three portfolios consisting of individual companies beat the market by double digit percentage points. Two stocks that were picked (AMD and MELI) managed to double in 2019.

Here are the final standings:

Adrian (60%)

• AMD – 155%
• AMZN – 26%
• NFLX – 25%
• NVDA – 80%
• SQ – 16%

Paul (52%)

• AMZN – 26%
• IQ – 45%
• MELI – 100%
• SQ – 16%
• TDOC – 74%

Gurkie (38%)

• AMZN – 26%
• C – 58%
• DIS – 34%
• GE – 50%
• TCEHY – 24%

Matt (30%)

• FZROX – 29%
• TSLA – 37%
• VGSLX – 27%
• VTI – 30%
• VTSAX – 28%

Daniel (22%)

• VBTLX – 9%
• VFIAX – 29%
• VFWAX – 18%
• VIMAX – 29%
• VSMAX – 26%

Thanks again to everybody for playing. Submissions for the 2020 Fantasy Investing season have already been received and I’ll have post in a few days explaining how you can track the performance of the 2020 portfolios, so keep an eye out for that. Thanks again.