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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
If the cash from ML is that much of an incentive, talk to Fidelity. They'll probably give you cash or some free trades to stay (speaking from experience).
yeah, I see I now have a msg from them; gee, that was quick (I queried them last night)
gee, …
@BobC,
I have not followed sufficiently their evilness as to policies or past practices. We use BoA for everything (check, save, mortgage, cheap heloc, cred cards now unused) and ML is their brokerage. (We go back 50y w BoA predecessors, local bran…
Surely someone smarter than I (Charles, e.g.) could grok this sort of thing and extrapolate forward or better yet find updated data...
https://www.markettamer.com/blog/the-best-performance-from-a-fang-since-dracula
this from just a hasty googling
had proposed to me tonight by ML to move accounts to them from Fido
most Fido funds and similar can be moved and reinvested in, even if not purchased anew outright --- ML does not offer them in the first place
includng DSEEX, which ML does not off…
Just the former.
I don't know about your loop, but key ACA precepts were out of the rightwing Heritage Foundation and first implemented by Romney in Mass., all the while loudly touted and analyzed as classic conservative-values solutions. Individu…
As with ACA, which from the getgo was a genuinely conservative solution in intents and details (personal responsibility and all that), the wholesale arguments against D-F are largely uninformed (polite term) and halfbaked. Frank himself, like ACA ex…
You also can just track RSP since its May 03 inception and can get a sense of how it has outperformed SP500 (from 14y down to ~4y) and then underperformed SP500 (the last 3-4y).
While CAPE has trounced both over its 4.7y life.
Interesting the deg…
No mention of NOBL and OUSA. An interesting analysis of how they parse their space, but all (I think, did not check in detail) are beaten by CAPE (yes, not notionally a div play per se).
jeez. Cramer is capable of doing real harm to any watcher with money. Orman not, I might even say never, not from my experience of watching her quite a lot back when. She is often excessively cautious and indeed wrongheaded about wariness and guidan…
smart talk
But why, given what he says, is its risk rating as it is in M* --- above average for 3y and 5y. Below average for 10y is understandable given what he writes about 07-09.
Interesting that FPACX 3y performance is the same as PONDX.
Wow re your uncle. wow. Shrapnel.
I made a note of the codebreaking film and the possible still of my father, but have placed it somewhere to be found later :) My sibs were not persuaded. But we have lots of war pix of him.
Yeah, right about fluen…
@icyone, thanks
A decade ago I found on y/t a short video on the Pearl codebreakers, and one passing still photo from it showed my father (not at all a higher-up) conferring with a colleague at a desk, from the side. Unidentified. I cannot find it a…
Anticipating and beating Yamamoto at Midway was a bfd, as it was a mere six months after Pearl Harbor and while we were secretly getting ready to land in the Solomons.
The next spring, after Solomons success, FDR sent out orders to get the guy. My …
@STB65,
I have been (rightly or wrongly) persuaded by the solid arguments against the notional diversification rationales for foreign equity investing.
fwiw, VWINX has barely kept up with PONDX the last couple of years. VWELX is outperformed by a 50-50 mix of PONDX and DSENX, a balanced combo I suggest to about anyone. Never gonna be in 401ks, though.
next dip, going to add to DSENX, from VNQ, VNQI, and FRIFX (Roth)
already added FRIFX in another account, from PONDX (rollover)
sold some PDI for cashflow
That's correct, rebalancing = the whole drag. As it typically is, by design.
I thought this 10k growth interesting (but again 50-50 Fido, so not altogether appropriate), and again not real-time-rebalanced:
Start date fall 1981: V = 362, F = 523k
…
Roger re rebalancing.
But anent your as-always complex 'hunch' of what I did, uh, I added $10k-growth totals for the same timeframe (starting sometime early in 1971, forget when) and divided by two. And then compared that with the same for the Vang…
Since 1971 VWINX is nearly doubled by 50-50 FCNTX and FBNDX (if my math is right). Not that most would have stomached that combo for >45y (heart attack, as JoeD says), but still.
>> Now that people of the correct (sic) race are suffering hopefully that will happen.
What does that mean? Sessions is going back to the 1980s. Or is that what you advocate? (Sorry to be puzzled.)
Welcome.
@bee,
No dumb to it, just that the phrase 'percentage growth format' is probably misleading.
Think of watching Verizon stock price up and down over the last 15y, or indeed owning it and having divs etc. distributed to you every quarter o…
@bee,
Unless I am missing your point, is it not that etf charts are nav or close, no reinvestment, while mfund $10k-growth charts show reinvestment of everything? Compares apple vs apple tree.
I always start w mfund chart (some SP500 fund, say), a…
>> ancient, impotent, dying religion of an ideology cannot beat a party whose candidate basically was filmed on national television beating the shit out of some fake ass news journalist
>> your lack of electrons!!!
Oh, goody. I was so h…
