What if you had copied Shri Thanedar?
Democrat, MI-13
The verdict
Copying Shri Thanedar's reported trades from Aug 2025 would have turned $10,000 into $2,359, less than the S&P 500 did.
The S&P 500 turned the same $10,000 into $12,213 over the same days. The copy returned −76.2% a year against +22.0% for the S&P 500, 98 points a year behind. Its worst fall was 79.1%, from Aug 12, 2025 to Jun 26, 2026. The S&P 500's worst fall over the test was 8.9%.
Copied Aug 12, 2025 to Aug 14, 2026 · House trade reports and daily closes
What $10,000 became
- Copying Shri Thanedar$2,359
- S&P 500$12,213
- Kept every buy and ignored their sales$2,359
If you had kept every buy and ignored their sales, you would have ended at about the same place, $2,359. The test stops on Aug 14, 2026, when everything copied had been sold, so there was nothing left to follow.
- $10,000 copied
- $2,359
- −76.4%, −76.2% a year
- In the S&P 500
- $12,213
- +22.1%, +22.0% a year
- Kept every buy
- $2,359
- Their sales ignored
- Worst fall
- −79.1%
- Aug 12, 2025 to Jun 26, 2026
- Trades
- 2
- 1 buys, 1 sales
The moves that made the most
No position made money for the copy.
The moves that cost the most
- MSTRMicroStrategy−$7,641
Held from Aug 2025 to Aug 2026, the stock down 76%
Year by year
| Year | Copy | S&P 500 | Gap, pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025from Aug 2025 | −61.5% | +6.7% | −68.2 |
| 2026to Aug 2026 | −38.8% | +14.5% | −53.2 |
A historical test on paper, before costs and taxes. It trades at the close of the first trading day after each report comes out, up to 45 days after the trade, sizes from reported ranges, and skips delisted companies, which flatters it.