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Open Thread: What Are You Buying/Selling/Pondering
Hi @Tony I did some paper trades with inverse etf's in a few areas and didn't do too bad. However, I found my daily time frame to put a pinch in this style of investing. For those who can really apply the time, there is excellent money to be had in this area with the markets hopping about. Mmmmm...thinking you had traveled to Colorado (me brain cells are faded today). Yes, you perhaps have rain to be concerned with in the near future, eh?
Moved a bit into the EM space, adding to an existing SFGIX position specifically. Will do this on a monthly basis with income generated in the IRA account. Everyone seems to hate EM, so that sounds like a decent plan. Foster trimmed China a bit as new cash came in, and he still has a nice India allocation which I tend to prefer.
Just enjoying the ride. As reported in your last thread Scott, we bought some OPGSX Sept 10. The turkey is up 25% since than. Hmm ... Kinda hot. Not sure what to do with it. (I'm not accustomed to success.)
Could you remind us how well all of these individual bonds are working for you? Have you found helpful resources for researching individual bond selection and for cost effective ways to purchase them.
Hi bee. Think last yr portfolio for bond yield ~ 6%. Usually I would buy from zionsdirect [cheapest bonds for the price I found in internet.] but u sleep much better at night. You can also set up alerts on these bonds in google.com/alert (need a gmail acct) and if something bad happen you can try to sell these bonds right away. For the past 24 months did not buy anything that bankruptcy yet. I usually buy corporate bonds that are at east bb+ grades. You can find lots of reads about bonds or fix income investments in google.com/books that are free to read. You can also research new safe bonds from Schwab (they usually sell the safest bonds that won't bankrupt) but more high risks bonds are at zionsdirect.
You can also sign up for bond research at Moodys.com and you can call the broker (ie zionsdirect) to ask about these bonds before buying them. But I think boa or most firms have their own bonds but zions usually charge 1% less fees than others.
Munis has smaller towns thus usually I but bbs or higher grades. But do read books at google.com/books for research about bonds
@catch22, Considering buying VXX etn next week, depending. Short-term. Scary, but could stand some quick positive hits. Several smart articles however say longterm to short it. Hmm.
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I did some paper trades with inverse etf's in a few areas and didn't do too bad.
However, I found my daily time frame to put a pinch in this style of investing.
For those who can really apply the time, there is excellent money to be had in this area with the markets hopping about.
Mmmmm...thinking you had traveled to Colorado (me brain cells are faded today).
Yes, you perhaps have rain to be concerned with in the near future, eh?
Take care,
Catch
Could you remind us how well all of these individual bonds are working for you? Have you found helpful resources for researching individual bond selection and for cost effective ways to purchase them.
thanks!
You can also set up alerts on these bonds in google.com/alert (need a gmail acct) and if something bad happen you can try to sell these bonds right away. For the past 24 months did not buy anything that bankruptcy yet. I usually buy corporate bonds that are at east bb+ grades. You can find lots of reads about bonds or fix income investments in google.com/books that are free to read. You can also research new safe bonds from Schwab (they usually sell the safest bonds that won't bankrupt) but more high risks bonds are at zionsdirect.
Munis has smaller towns thus usually I but bbs or higher grades. But do read books at google.com/books for research about bonds
Considering buying VXX etn next week, depending. Short-term. Scary, but could stand some quick positive hits. Several smart articles however say longterm to short it. Hmm.