As stocks investing is filled with multiple Buys and Sells, constituting lots of Cashflows, I started computing the cash Inflows and Outflows that is similar to a normal business. It is common to say that Cash is akin to Blood and critical to any business operations. Cashflow is kind of related but not the same as Profit. In financial accounting, you can ascribe a profit and yet have a portfolio negative cashflow. It is also easier to financial engineer a profit than a positive cashflow 😅 Received a number of requests from readers of my blog post $983k profits in 20 years (2005-2024) on questions about my IRR... Drum roll please! 😂 As you can clearly see from above, my XIRR values are really not that great. If we do a multi year XIRR, the value would just be in single digits, underperforming the S&P500 markets of around 10% average per year. Why not just save all the trouble and put...