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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.
har and cool, comical and astounding
There's a big honkin' footnote for Great Owls, M*, Lipper, Zacks ....
https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2117450/4-balanced-mutual-funds-to-buy-for-stability-in-uncertain-times
https://www.morningstar.com/asset…
let mfopremium free quicksearch be your friend here !
Quicksearch is great at finding funds that aren’t available for purchase by mere mortals.
Uh, https://www.statefarm.com/finances/mutual-funds
Not clear the son could do self-directed investin…
Fido's MM funds are nearing 5%, which is fine by me as I continue holding longterm losers BND and BSV and VGIT, and must also be approaching $2T. I wonder how they will be able to continue with such growth.
>> asking me if he should sell all and eliminate his balance on a school and car loan and move the now available dollars to a savings account in preparation for a future wedding or other emergency needs.
Coming late to this, but if it were …
@WABAC
>> Pretty sure NICSX has beat the 500 since David took over after his father passed.
I don't know when that was exactly, but this is not at all the case since midsummer 2016 (AN died that August): SP500 up 7% over Nicholas.
OJ, did you ever read his talk on women and science? It is strikingly nuanced and not much like its reputation at all.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-jan-june05-summersremarks_2-22
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news-speeches-sum…
more and more detailed explanation (rightly or wrongly)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/opinion/core-inflation-statistics.html
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/slow-progress-core-inflation-problem
see if you can read this thread
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1675075725122994176
... the misery index — unemployment plus inflation — is all the way back to where it was when Biden took office ....
@Baseball_Fan
Again, you are silly and unserious and should stop w your wingnut posting until you have something substantial, more than 'I know a guy.'
Good times widely unnoticed:
DDoney:
On average, President Biden has the highest real (inflation-adjusted) wage and lowest unemployment rate of any president from LBJ to present (1964-2023).
Workers never had it better.
and (the whole thread)
ht…
Thank you. MFreeland and others (Ted) wrote about Direxion over the years before the outfit went fully psycho. Also after. G over V looked interesting to me (did not go to zero), and I lost a little less than a quarter of a non-large investment. Liv…
Makes for good entertainment though ..just like reading Krugman. Makes you want to laugh out loud with their hubris and pseudo intellectual babble.
Har, he and colleagues have been on quite the roll for some time now about inflation, recession, …
@WABAC,
Why do you suppose I would post what I posted without checking?
You can read M* ... or you can, you know, just go do the count yourself:
https://amplifyetfs.com/divo-holdings/
24 as of today; I see I misread Dow Inc.
plus, as I said, …
Closest thing I own is DIVO. That's up about 1.0 YTD.
I bet you knew, which I did not, that DIVO holds 22 stocks!?
Plus Dow derivs and several other options.
My fear is that it is easier to fail than broader ETFs. (I already went through closi…
Personally, I’m very optimistic about balanced funds right now ... my primary balanced fund (FBALX) has decent three and five year returns.
I certainly wish I had put all of our nut into FBALX 11y ago --- forget going back to 1986 --- when I stopped…
wow and huh
Seems typical, yes, and yes about the platform. Prohibiting divo, ccor, cape, and now tcaf?? Seriously?
the ML guy who helped me was better than enthusiastic, and when I called a few days ago about something else the notes to the xfe…
I just moved considerable (for us) moneys from Fido to ML to get a $1k reward, and had several dealings w reps, and ML are really trying to up their game --- responsiveness, efficiency, savvy, frank advice --- it is clear. As for specific policies a…
>> Merrill has fixed that problem this morning.
That 'trading of this security ...' etc. prohibition nonsense has been ML boilerplate for some time (recently), and has appeared for DIVO, CAPE, and CCOR as well as TCAF. DSENX is okay, though. …
