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The "800 pound gorilla" has been tamed! Bill received a bit of criticism for not selecting the S&P 500 as the portfolio the Pony Express had to beat. The S&P 500 was the idol of index investors when the contest began. Bill generated a return of over twice that of the S&P 500 but his return still was not good enough to avoid defeat in the contest. The Pony Express was completely written off by one poster at MFI when the first pony was announced. That first selection was so bad that the poster lost all interest in anything the Pony Express would do after that point. If the Pony Express had rode that first pony all the way to the finish line it would have, with an average annual return of over 28%, out ran every mutual fund on the market except two. The best performing mutual fund on the market over the time frame of the contest was WWWFX with an average annual return of 32.5% With an average annual return of 38.5% the Pony Express not only generated over 13 times the return of Bill's CRAAL portfolio but easily beat the return of every mutual fund on the market over the duration of the contest. The Pony Express won nineteen of twenty quarters as CRAAL was soundly and consistently defeated. The Pony Express made a deliberate effort to try to win each and every quarter since Bill was comparing quarterly results. If there really were a random market out there somewhere the odds against the Pony Express winning all twenty quarters would have been over a million to one. The Pony Express did not quite succeed in the attempt to win every quarter but made it very clear that the market surely is not random. Good "luck" selecting your ponies!