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I just took a chance and called Charles Schwab. Got thru in 10 secs and had a great chat w/account rep who answered my questions. I think I may make a fresh start & open new account there to avoid the integration nonsense with .@TDAmeritrade as…
black is the new (old) orange?
Hopefully at 1201PM on Jan 20 2021, orange will be the new orange as he gets a wardrobe change and chauferred in a big beautiful car up to the SDNY.
I use Fidelity for several decades and they are very reliable and fast on connectivity ! It should able to meet all your needs.
Almost! They don't seem to offer futures. :/
I heard from friends in NYC that 'they' (some legislators either from NYC or in Albany, I'm not sure) were floating the idea of implementing some form of exit tax and/or expat surcharge for folks moving out of the area, similar to what you pay when…
Now he says he'll sign USPS funding if the Dems make concessions in the Covid negotiations.
In normal times, that would be termed political dealmaking and posturing. These days, given the situation, it sounds like extortion --- and totally par fo…
Yup. It's all about him and avoiding a) embarrassment at 'losing', b) seeing his tax records released, and c) prison.
Tweety Amin is far more interested in suppressing votes than suppressing the virus ...
Supposedly Tweety Amin semi-walked back his USPS remarks yesterday, but I doubt anyone's believing it.
He'll do anything to remain in office b/c the minute he leaves, he's facing criminal (and civil) charges and likely jail time. He clearly is in…
Order placed to close out my VDIGX position as part of portfolio simplification. 14% gain since Feb.
Going into the rest of the year I expect to re-open and significantly fund a PRBLX holding as a core position in the OEF part of my portfolio.
Yeah his stuff was interesting --- but I hated how you had to log in to pull down the weekly report ... in 2016 (or 18, whenever it was) he should have been able to send it to subscribers via email. Forcing readers to login was inconvenient and I …
Out of ETFs? I don't think so. But I have been caught in low-liquidity stocks that took hours, and in some cases, days, to fill a simple order to dump just 1 or 2000 shares ... sometimes even that could move the needle on very thinly-traded symbol…
I'm not seeing much volume on these ETFs. Meaning, as much as I'd consider adding TCHP to my portfolio, I wouldn't touch it anytime soon due to liquidity concerns .... not that I'd be trading it, but when I want to get out of a position, I want t…
I do rather worry about the RobinHood crowd and the prospect that they're pushing things higher, in part by triggering the algos. The observation that the S&P 495 is underwater by 5% year-to-date while the S&P 5 is up dramatically, does fee…
Actually that was fairly easy to follow after the second reading. :) But yes, I agree there's far too much prose involved for the average joe investor to follow easily.
BTW TRP seems to be very active these days. Rolling out semitransparent E…
@rforno She will mop the floor with him.
Crash, I totally agree. Frankly I wonder if this means Pence's status on the ticket could be in danger now? Watching her cross-examination of witnesses in hearings was wonderful and her prosecutorial chop…
Trevor Noah (host of 'The Daily Show') tweeted out “EXCLUSIVE: White House officials are exploring legal options to ensure Mike Pence can participate in the VP debate with Kamala Harris, a woman.”
Cutting the payroll tax doesn't help anyone who's out of work. But it gives Tweety Amin a talking point about how he "cut taxes" going into the elections.
The payroll tax cut is also a backdoor way of attacking Social Security and Medicare, I thi…
They were highly reco'd in the early 00s and I was really respecting them. I was in DODFX for a while and got burned by their 'disciplined' strategy of refusing to sell bank stocks despite the tides shifting right in front of them -- just like how…
Seems like a less-sensational version of ZeroHedge. At least it runs more news stories from 'real' mainstream news sources ... but you should definately source-verify some of the relatively unknown authors/articles in their aggregations.
Totally agree that people suck far more than wildlife. That said, I grew up in Ft Lauderdale. I learned to give ManoWars, Jellyfish, and their ilk a wide wide berth on land, on, and under, the sea. Scary critters.
Anyone else baffled by the fa…
Project Syndidate is a great thought-piece site.
As an academic now (my second career) I've penned pieces for The Conversation, which is a similar type of site that is more analytical and explainy-for-the-public vs op-eddy and covers a wide range …
They've had data problems on and off again for the past several years. Is one of the reasons I stopped my longtime premium subscription.
Earlier this year I paid for SA Premium, whose data, analytics, and website are far more reliable and readabl…
Agreed. Back then there weren't too many high-flying companies of interest to young'uns like there are today.
@rforno - maybe the same only different. You probably have a better memory than me but I see to recall that the Stein Roe fund was populat…
That reminds me of the idea behind the now-defunct Stein Roe Young Investors Fund. The fund held a bunch of companies that kids in the 80s were into -- from clothing to toys to fast food. But these days a decent tech/growth fund would probably s…
Because the league gets far more $$ from TV rights and advertising than they do from overpriced charges for in-stadium ticket sales and concessions.
Watching some of the games on Fox broadcast yesterday, I gotta say that the CGI fake crowds look h…
I'd say PRBLX as a blended growth/value fund or TRBCX for pure growth.
I avoid index funds b/c market-cap weightings skew their performance toward just how a handful of big names fluctuate which move the index. But if you want to get cheap passiv…
It opened Monday at 12, I bought in a lowball bid at $11. It's up big to 14.50 in today's aftermarket on news about its plans, plus DOD restarting funding of rare earths projects ... at first I thought it was a pump-and-dump thing by their execs,…
I picked up some FVAC in the premarket recently (as a speculative play) after it merged with the old problematic Molycorp via a SPAC. Seemed to be a good play on the largest domestic rare earths miner.
