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my main beef w RS are the prices. everything in the store is marked up more than any other place i go to. i hate buying there. that said, sometimes, like if i'm out of town and need something in a hurry, i'll pick it up at RS. but then i'll retu…
RRREX and SCHH have nearly identical charts/returns since SCHH's inception. Naturally, SCHH has *much* lower expenses. It also has a higher yield.
A more conservative play might be FRIFX, a real estate income fund.
C22: are you thinking of this …
the only thing i think is that it'll overshoot all expectations, just because that's how these things normally play out. have we done that yet? i don't think so. seems to me that $33 is a possibility, if only for the blink of an eye.
and then there's PQTDX, up .64%. it's good fortune won't last forever, but for the time being it sure helps offset some of my bigger bummers.
also left off the list: FPACX, down .98%. not too shabby, in comparison to the others.
in any event, the DGI guys over on seeking alpha spend about 33.33% of their time proving -- or at least attempting to prove -- that investing in OEFs in no way even approximates buying and benefiting from individual, blue-chip stocks. on and on th…
i'm w/ JC on this. i mean, if you can predict a black swan, ipso facto it ain't a black swan. (have no idea if i used ip-fa properly but it sure sounds good, don't it?)
DO says: However, ALL of them got stopped out when they hit -10% of my average NAV after I had completed those positions.
I ask: So if you had your stop at -10% then, I can only assume that you're using a similar stop now. If oil drops to $50, wo…
i switched a bunch of POAGX for PRHSX a week or two ago and am glad i did, so far. actually wish i'd switched it all, so far. but it does worry me that the health-care chorus is all singing a single note. then again, i thought the same thing one …
okay, got it. i still would like to see MFO allow user-input start dates for comparisons. most of the stats do me no good when one find is three years old and the next is 15 years old.
@linter: Your combination provides the following exposure: 50% HC, 22% Tech, and 13% Industrials. You may want to consider an equal mix of PRHSX and POAGX, which would be my preference. But if you want a higher octane, then you may consider a mix …
i have 5% in PRHSX and 10% in POAGX. besides those two and all the similar funds, are there any other ways to buy healthcare, just to diversify a little w/ in the sector? what about healthcare REITs? any thoughts on those? or maybe GILD, to go p…
i believe in the health care theme too and am currently thinking, if that's the case, i really ought to take a look at how to use Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X ETF aka CURE. maybe take 1/3 the money i was thinking of adding to PRHSX, put it in C…
In part, this is why I believe there should be some kind of option for, er, ah, early elective self termination beyond a certain age. i've worked and scrimpted my entire life so I could pass my savings on to my daughter, to make her life easier and…
just thought i'd follow this up, just 'cause i said i would. so ... one day later here's what happened with the three MJ stocks in question, not that it makes any diff in the long run.
erbb: -2.91%
spli: -1.61%
mine: 45.45%
an experiment.
the date today is 3/19. i received a tip today -- ha, ha, a tip, we all know how good those are! -- from a maryjane-stock insider -- and from an MJ insider no less! -- on a few penny MJ stocks that are set to explode. of course, the…
bee: you should add erbb to your picture. earlier in the thread, there was talk of marijane stocks. i got all excited and bought a few. three days later, my measly amount in erbb was up 40% and i sold half. yesterday it was up another 17%. it's the …
i just put a tiny amount of money into 6 pot penny stocks -- money i don't care if i lose. phot was one of them. i had seven stocks on my list but the 7th one looked a little uncertain to me. this was 2 or 3 days ago. CBGI. it's now up like 60%…
has anyone here subscribed to the CXO's site and had a look at its momentum etf strategy? i think it's all hypothetical too but everyone seems to give CXO a free ride because it finds little of value anywhere else, so maybe its proprietary ratings …
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perfecto. now the only job left for you is to exchange the positions of views and…
it'll take me a while to get used to the new layout and look, but one request i have is, in the subheads to thread titles, that you put # of comments first and the # of views seconds\. it'll make it much easier to scan down the list while looking f…
Following up on this, what are a couple of ***great*** Europe funds? I know that DFE (Wisdromtree Europe smallcap dividend) is up 5.44% on the year, while PRESX (TR Price Europe) is up 2.86%. Any better contenders?
We've all read about the rubber band theory of the market averages. First, it overshoots on the upside, then it over-downshoots on the downside. What's in the middle? Perhaps it's fair-market value. So maybe what MarkM is suggesting is that the …
My time frame for FBIOX is ten years or more. If it crashes any time soon, as the moon-rocket trajectory of its current path suggests it will, then I'll be okay with that, as long as I don't bail at the low, ha ha. If it waits 9 years to crater, t…
