9 monkeys created

SIR MARGE ▲ +87.9%MADAME ELAINE ▲ +184.0%SIR STANLEY ▲ +124.1%GORDON GORILLA ▲ +196.6%MAURICE ▲ +265.8%SIR MARGE ▲ +87.9%MADAME ELAINE ▲ +184.0%SIR STANLEY ▲ +124.1%GORDON GORILLA ▲ +196.6%MAURICE ▲ +265.8%

The world's largest experiment in investment luck

CAN A MONKEY BEAT WALL STREET?

We give monkeys $10,000 and ten random stocks. No research. No strategy. No idea what they're doing. Some of them became investment legends.

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Millions of monkeys will try.

Ten random stocks. Ten years. One benchmark to beat.

Yours is waiting ↓

Monkeys Created

Beat the S&P 500

54.0%

of 10,000 simulated monkeys

Median Monkey CAGR

+15.2%

S&P 500: +14.8%

Best Monkey in the Zoo

+265.8%

Maurice

The Million Monkey Experiment

What happens when one million monkeys pick stocks at random? We intend to find out.

9 / 1,000,000 monkeys

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#	Monkey	Return	Alpha	Luck
1	Maurice#6	+265.8%	−32.5 pp	37.5
2	Gordon Gorilla#5	+196.6%	−101.7 pp	17.5
3	Madame Elaine#3	+184.0%	−114.4 pp	14.0
4	Sir Stanley#4	+124.1%	−174.2 pp	2.6
5	Sir Marge#2	+87.9%	−210.5 pp	0.4

The Zoo

Every monkey ever created, in one gloriously biased museum of luck. Keep yours and it gets a number and a permanent page — /monkey/warren-bananas-482193

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Wall Street Monkeys is an entertainment and educational simulation. Random portfolios are not investment recommendations. Historical performance is simulated and is not a prognosis. No monkeys were consulted on actual asset allocation.