<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>And if you bought it a few days later (on June 13, 2022) you would be up 20.5% today even without dividend reinvestment. Trying to derive meaning from stock returns over such short periods is meaningless due to the inherent volatility of the market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to find a calculator&amp;#x2F;data source that takes dividends into account, but it looks like if you bought an S&amp;amp;P500 index fund in May 2022 you&amp;#x27;d be up around 18% depending on which day you purchased. So not very dramatic IMO</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022</title><url>https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danuker</author><text>Looks like VFINX returned 8.8% since 2022-05-01. How did you get to 18%?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;totalrealreturns.com&amp;#x2F;n&amp;#x2F;VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=2022-05-01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;totalrealreturns.com&amp;#x2F;n&amp;#x2F;VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR?start=20...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to find a calculator&amp;#x2F;data source that takes dividends into account, but it looks like if you bought an S&amp;amp;P500 index fund in May 2022 you&amp;#x27;d be up around 18% depending on which day you purchased. So not very dramatic IMO</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022</title><url>https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow</url></story>