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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.
Congrats and some of us are in a similar situation. I am taking some gains and either giving or lending to kids for housing, but even if I were not, I am not about to pay down my mortgage, even at 70. Don't believe in it, believe I can outperform by…
@bee, thanks much. Doctrinaire people, man.
You obviously have suppleness and emotional understanding as a parent.
Yeah, I am not considering this as an investment except perhaps at the lower levels, and think that the 'effectively' person is mo…
Was not talking about like funds, since this was about a specific list of excellence. Was thinking more of this sort of thing:
http://personal.fidelity.com/products/trading/Trading_Platforms_Tools/excessive_trading_policies.shtml
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/conservatives-angry-media-reports-who-gets-trump-tax-cuts.html
Lie, lie differently, spin, lie some more, and why?
Cutting taxes on affluent people has been the Republican Party’s number-one policy obje…
Facts? Har, more comedy from Ted. I guess you guys didn't read it (not really an opinion piece), but why is that not surprising? @willmatt72, be sure not to read it, k?
This is smarter than some responses about the myriad flaws
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-rushes-out-a-tax-plan-based-on-a-deception-2017-04-26
>> [not] performance-based charting.
This chart program's nifty merits aside, for many of us compounded / reinvested charting is all that matters, though --- the only performance.
@catch22,
Thanks much, very cool indeed, even cooler than your first link. Tracking closeness with overshoot / undershoot. But this is not a $10k-growth chart, correct ?
@catch22
I already posted that my curiosity is for worst cases and dip intervals and how it compares with better-understood entities. You might even say known-stabler entities, depending on how one sees SP500 vol and general bond vol.
We all can …
Okay, for all valleys from mid-2015 on to the present, the performance and tracking of DSENX are as above: usually better than CAPE, a little, occasionally worse, a little, while always the same as or better than SP500. EXCEPT for October and Novemb…
One of my kids is househunting (or condo) and going to tap into her Roth and possibly her rollover for downpayment, so I am carefully reading all of these regs for 'first-time' homebuyers.
It's 55% of my entire investment net.
To some degree I understand on paper what it does. What I am still trying to get my mind around are worst-case scenarios and how it would compare with some combo of conventional LV and broad bonds. The leverag…
>> in each case in an amount potentially up to the value of the Fund’s assets.
>> ... You have to state ... that you can afford losing 100% of your investment, etc.
Can you describe a scenario where this would happen but TWEIX plus DOD…
I am honored to be slurred by Ted yet again, for like the third or fourth time.
But hey, study these data:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-DGZKgUwAAIgO7.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-DGwjZUAAERp3Z.jpg
>> getting $10K of securities for $10K.
Roger all, again, ... but why do you keep putting it like this?
Only in a world of no trading costs, and no other costs either. Not only does it never happen, it ought never to happen. (And it never d…
Roger all. Also, I was misdirecting your point, about fees for the exact same thing.
Still, what did this mean?
>> prefer not to pay more than $10K for $10K worth of securities.
Does it intend to say that paying the least amount above $10…
Yeah, thanks much, I just today happened to recheck at Fido and ML, and one is avail for a fee and the other not. It trails FOSFX (e.g.) but may outpace soon enough. May.
I am going to stop waiting w/ the spare cash I have and stick it in DSENX ins…
>> I'd prefer not to pay more than $10K for $10K worth of securities.
haha, there goes the system. I'd prefer not to pay any markup ever for anything, cars, groceries, furniture. Actually no, I don't mind; I know that's how the service gets …
@msf
>> bid/ask spread. With an ETF you're almost guaranteed to lose.
>> tracking error.
What do these mean in consequence? That is, even if true, so what ?
>> give it to those who don't work or won't work.
like the very wealthy, for example.
>> I put money at risk, that's how I worked for it !
Now that's funny.
@Ted, did you not just receive some health care, I believe you posted?
Wait, aren't we talking about a company, and a stock? Besides, Citizens United shows that companies are people too. Also, it was policy. A 'few', haha. Do you think the fines and penalties are for a few? Perhaps that big explosion has you confused.
Lolz. Being called a moral chest-beater for finding fault with a dirtbag cheat shop like WF is beyond droll, triply so from someone who posts tough-guy video clips and such. Made my evening, humorwise.
As you know, it all depends on your post-tax rate and the likelihood of your matching or beating it by deploying the money elsewhere, and more important by the comfort level. (There have been past discussions here advocating either path, of course l…
