Tricked by Mr. Market: Bill Miller, manager, Value Trust: “Every decision to buy anything has been wrong.”

These losses have wiped away Value Trust’s years of market-beating performance. The fund is now among the worst-performing in its class for the last one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods, according to Morningstar.

Here is the type of learning opportunity that will become increasingly available as chronicles of the demise of stock pickers and market timers [...]