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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.
No math required. Just go to
https://quotes.morningstar.com/chart/fund/chart.action?t=dodgx
as long as it is still active, and put in any start and end dates you like --- including multiple 10y periods too! No math required. It shows what I poste…
@hank
>> You might be surprised if you looked at how DODGX has performed since the market bottomed on / around March 20. (thru last Friday +26%)
Huh? What's the surprise? Did I miss something, or did you mean meh meh ?
M* old-style graph fr…
Starting end April DSEEX pulled ahead of CAPE and then a week or so ago ahead of SP500. Maybe the bond sauce has been reformulated. (Some of the Pimco gogo vehicles have perked up also.)
LG is where it's at for true growth.
Yeah. Trying to see any args against all VONG all the time; slicing and comparing past subsample periods and all that.
VONG started later than the awful late summer of 08 and on to the April 2010 recovery, bu…
We have some seriously low rates at BoA for mortgage (3.75%; this could improved w effort) and heloc (2.42%, can redo to 2.17% teaser for a year if I press for it and agree to use). The former rate from years ago was just for refinancing through the…
https://www.investmentnews.com/fidelity-investments-perks-wealth-management-clients-193142
Hy cd
2% cash back
Good rates for cars homes loans
Free trading
What else can go wrong w fidelity
@johnN
\\\ Good rates for cars homes loans
What does t…
Oh, another one (@bee): SPY/TLT 50/50 and forget about it.
Why does anyone ever choose SPY over VOO?
For me TLT would be too jumpy for what I want a bond ETF for, but it sure does majorly outperform VGIT, and even BND.
I'm slowly deciding on 55-…
@bee, I was taking his 'other' to mean 'higher', perhaps wrongly, and have been trying to reconcile it with this 3yo interview's other section,
the 4.5% rule is not a law of nature, like Newton’s laws of motion, which will probably never change. …
All,
Please note, and please keep in mind, that FD1k is experiencing serious gloating at all of this destruction in the present, and anticipates even more and more personal joy in the future, at destruction to come.
I see a lot of loathsome, rep…
MHulbert talks with a couple of realist-pessimists:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-even-think-of-owning-stocks-unless-youre-willing-to-buy-and-hold-for-this-many-years-2020-05-19
lots of smaller and non-covid hospitals have to do this; it's awful
normal patient traffic is down to nearly zero, very quiet, yes, for all the normal things of the past,
rightly or wrongly patient behaviors
PCP practices too, and dentists, et…
@hank
right, all good advice, except when things have changed for keeps
there are too many controls now (thank goodness), not like back when people thought inflation was an unpredictable natural outcome of something or other, and should be let t…
Militias are providing protest security so we are good.
har, that sentiment is comedy gold.
https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/96234051_10222396901609664_7229111398679183360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=dzugBTZK0A8A…
- most do not want unconventional success
- we will never see 8% inflation again
- why mention bogle's bogus rule when he himself eventually saw its bogosity?
- the whole point of guidelines is to help as things around the corner become clear,…
In my opinion, all businesses should be allowed to OPEN. If people are not comfortable, they will not go. That's end of the story.
ha, if only it worked like that
@Press, totally concur in this view
Less than 100 Thousand people dead out of 340 MILLION. I don't how DT got sucked into it. Now we are rescuing the economy spending TRILLIONS of BORROWED money.
You do know we are mostly borrowing it from ourselves? Huge debt is problematic chiefly w…
man, fwiw, I think this probably is backward --- add to retirement, add to equities, forget yield, do it, as bigtime as you can. How much time lies ahead before retirement?
phyzx 9.4% when the article was written 7.02% yield as of close fri.
That one outperforms FAGIX for all time periods I could see (back to 10y). Is the yield history pretty steady?
Since Feb 23, the start, CAPE has tracked VOO w only slight lag and at close today appears likely to match it, so by my read it is the bond sauce chiefly which has detracted. I too am holding though may go in part directly to CAPE.
