"Up +6,408% in 10 years" — "100x returns" — you've likely seen eye-watering numbers on EA sales pages. At first glance, it's tempting: "Wow, if an EA can deliver that, it must be incredible." But here's the catch: those massive profit percentages are almost never the result of the EA's actual performance, but rather the multiplication effect of compound returns.
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