I think you're meant to outperform the index, make money whether it's going up or down...
If not and the market is going down, you'd be better off keeping the money in a shoebox under the bed, at least he wouldn't have lost 10% of it by now.
I think that's the salient point of these posts by @truthtrader, that haj guy is barely matching the index let alone making a profit. Not that he's even trading, just generating those random charts for Steem $$$