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@hank. If you can tell how long it was before $56.69 became $100 again? Might be instructive.
Perhaps then we can ask the question, if one sold DODGX when value fell to $90, and then bought it back after it crossed $100 again, ...
I think you get …
When I hear 15% tax rates are going "generate so much economic activity, the tax collections will actually increase" , I want to barf.
The Fed kept dropping the interest rate and companies borrowed cheap money on share buybacks to boost stock price…
@msf I'm suggesting that perhaps we need to change the narrative. Investors should not have "expectations". They should always expect the unexpected.
"Buy and Hold", "Value Investing", etc. may have merits of their own, but they are in Isolation. …
Is there a way to find out when M* made these funds "medalists"? I thought in their fund table they would have said how long the funds have been medalists.
Asking because I can look at the top funds for last 15 years year after year, make them ANAL…
What! Really? OMG !!!
So we stay invested in the downturn all the way in our retirement accounts. If we didn't then why would there be something called sequence-risk?
I'm still concerned about market valuations here, and May is around the corner. Examples of high current price to historical TTM free cash flow ratios (data from Morningstar): MCD 28.7; AMZN 45.2; CSX 52.3; FB 36.9. I'm whittling away at my equit…
So for once, we are attributing all blame to the CEO, BUT still she makes millions.
Wells Fargo executives. Same thing.
Lesson to millennials. Never refuse a promotion. Unfortunately the only lesson learnt. You see, very hard to have student loans …
It is the cost of IT. Gone were the days "you are dead if you don't support all browsers". It simply costs too much to develop and support applications. At most 1 / 2 browsers may be supported.
Will you change your bank if their online website only…
Like I said in the other thread. Start wimping out and start wimping back in. No need to sell out/buy in to the market all at once.
This is not "market timing". It is not sticking your head in the mud or try to justify some ANALysis of undervalued …
"Live in the present" might work better as a matter of tactical allocation (stocks or bonds this year? here or there? defensive or aggressive?) but the strategic question (how much do I need to squirrel away over each of the next 35 years to have a …
If there is one thing I have learnt is that NO one should even predict stock market returns. Invest in the PRESENT. Look at observable evidence to decide your allocations. You will not get market return that way, but market return is a dumb way to m…
I have been a victim of identity theft. To cut a long story short, I realized that credit card "protection" offers no protection. Just like Terminix does not protect against termites. You are paying for something that allegedly helps you manage the …
You want more financial pron?
http://www.investors.com/news/dow-sp-500-futures-soar-on-french-election-results/?src=A00220&yptr=yahoo
Watch the video. Apple is providing a buying opportunity because it has broken out...
...but buyer beware...
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Why would I want or not want to invest with American Funds, depending on whether I agree or don't agree with this analogy ?!?!?!
Whatever happened to simply explaining how people invest?
I am honored to be slurred by Ted yet again, for like the third or fourth time.
But hey, study these data:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-DGZKgUwAAIgO7.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-DGwjZUAAERp3Z.jpg
Well he edited his post...
@VintageFreak: Time to go to school, chart school that is !
Regards,
Ted
http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:chart_analysis:elder_impulse_system
Something tells me if I didn't do so much schooling I would have time and space left…
First I have found MACD to be very unreliable.
Second if you have a subscription - that's my point :-)
Anyways, does the cheapest Stockcharts subscription provide monthly charts and enable more than 3 SMA/EMA plots, etc?
I find PMO is better when …
@BenWP - thanks much. good to know. Had completely forgotten about it.
I really need this available at Merrill where I own DSENX. My Schwab portfolio has enough international. I will give it some time.
Unique....Sorry but for me Unique has to mean something different and not necessarily something "better", where "better" can mean risk and/or reward and/or anything else you are looking at in the manager.
POLRX (video interview of manager on their …
MSFBX. NTF at Fidelity, Vanguard and others.
Helluva good looking fund. Especially if you can bypass the load.
Simply cannot bring myself to invest with people doing god's work - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, et. al.
@Anna. Your experience is what I have always believed, should be attributed to personal responsibility of one or more individuals at United. Leadersh*t always has you believe they driving good behavior in the organization when reality is something e…
More like an antediluvian.
I would have thought people of yore were more charitable. Then again, those that claim to have "worked" for everything they've got might have inherited at least their traits (if not their wealth) which has worked (pun inte…
Stupid Question. Why would fund company offer to buy back shares? Because they think they are a better value at current price? If these are mutual funds then thinking they don't work like CEFs which has fixed number of shares. So it's not making sen…
@MFO Members: I got the answer ! Lets redistribute the wealth and take monies earned from those who work and give it to those who don't work or won't work.
Regards,
Ted
Let me guess. Are you a libertarian?
"capitalism run amok". Exactly! I just say....Objectivism, yeah? The "greed is good" gang will never perish and for capitalism to truly work for everyone, the Objectivists have to cease to exist. In a perfect world where capitalism truly rules in it…
Hmm....Lack of "fiducuary rule" also caused investors $17B annually...
Question - Does anyone fact check such reports? I mean I'm not saying this is not a problem, but I just wonder...
@Sven. I didn't like American but now...
Never be a hypocrite, but I will do my best to not fly United ever again. As I always say, if you have a choice then make a statement. It is never too late to do that including the passengers of that flight.…
Screaming buy? Kicking and screaming...then bye-bye is more like it.
Wasn't there a time when overbooking meant that some lucky passengers were going to receive windfall for giving up their seats?
They do ... up to I think $1500 max, paid in cash…
why don't the officers who dragged the man out go to jail? Because he was in an aeroplane? What if this was a movie theater and accidently more tickets were sold?
Why didn't the airline offer MORE money to see if anyone would want to take them up o…
