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thanks all, much food for thought if not grist for the mill. meanwhile, just looking at taxable bond funds, why might you choose them over JAAA? i guess it might have to do with taxes but it makes my head hurt trying to figure that out.
man o man did i get locked out once again. burned on the two previous rallies, had little faith in the third, which is of course the current one. sigh.
why would you be against posting % amount? if you're going to post about purchases at all, wouldn't it make sense to also indicate level of conviction via %? otherwise, it could be anything from a massive timber amount to a shivering leaf's worth …
i have followed fd, in one way or another, for as long as my ancient brain can remember and, truth to tell, he's made me a lot more money than i know i would have made on my own. i've thanked him publicly (and privately) and will continue to do so.…
david: that is an absolutely fabulous rendering of one spectacular life. the kind interrogator. who would have thought? but he was brilliant and he did his thing his way and it worked and then it became known to others and spread from there. jus…
i've been a rolling stone contributing-editor writer since 1998 and worked there in different capacities since 1982 and while many folks think rs sold out decades ago, it's shocking to me how truly awful it has become since it was bought by penske…
i was raised in the 50s in a fabulously wealthy (white) family. grandfather was an assistant secretary of defense in the eisenhower administration, then administrator of GSA. my parents divorced when i was 2, with my richy rich glamorous mother …
i bought one share each of all the ARK funds, just for the hell of it, in a zero commission world, about three months ago. obviously, i wish i'd put lots more into them. lots and lots more.
i guess these are all swipes in one way or another at fd and i do know at least one very successful forumite who uses him as a contrarian indicator. otoh, he's taught me a lot and offered takes on the investing scene that have made me money, esp in…
i wish there was an option to not even see 'off topic' posts, in the same manner that you can use 'discussion +' to only see threads w/ more than one post.
Great to see that someone other than me in certain liberal circles is a fan of JP. IMO, he's been wildly misunderstood (and misappropriated), but I think he's as close to a practical philosophical genius as is currently on the scene. Love listen…
thanks for that. i don't know what the make of it, action-taking-wise, but i appreciate it anyway. at this point, anything i do will seem like it's based on FOMO and that usually ends up poorly.
twas just kidding about FD and my moolah, and forget about him posting his trades, etc. i do take him at his word, however, as regards his returns.
meanwhile, ben f is an ancestor of mine ... and i've got the massive forehead to prove it, if…
as an alternative to 4% theory, one could always go the variable route, which i am currently pondering. here's a big thread on it from the boggleheads site. would love to know what the folks here think. https://ishort.ink/wmG6
OS: when you say a fund makes up, say, 5% of a sleeve, what i'd like to know is how much % of your total portfolio that fund is. possible to include that? i mean, your hybrid income sleeve in total could be but 5% of your portfolio, making any fun…
what's interesting is to not use longest time frame but to set the start date to 2007, so you're going into retirement at a very bad time. i did it w PRWCX. started with 1 mil and at the end of 2019 you had 780k with a max drawdown of 55%, at the …
thanks, VF. I'm newly 98% retired, with time on my hands and a need to keep my brain working. this could be an interesting thing to study and paper trade, even if i do nothing more.
hmmmm. no thoughts. i already made all the money on pot stocks that i think i can and don't want to go back there. day trading on hot tips nearly killed me, though i did come out ahead by like 25k. too kooky. but that was a few years back and m…
mcm: i just don't have a lot of faith in this market and, if that's the case, i'd rather be in something that held up better into march.
https://ishort.ink/BTTq
that said, the posts by old skeet and level5 have given me a certain amount of …
i sold out of AKREX after having just bought it. lost 30$. took half of proceeds and bought more RLSFX. both were and are tiny % amounts of my portfolio. am sitting tight on COTZX but might buy another slug next week.
rforno: here's a link to darlene on the chicken thing. is this what you're doing, vf?
https://www.streetdirectory.com/etoday/bull-put-credit-spread-eafow.html
