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@FD1000: Concerning your comments (just above), I am in close agreement.
Thank you.
We should concentrate on investments and money on this site.
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Watches: In the last 10 years, I kept buying cheap Chinese watches that look …
- The only two sources of financial stress are risk and debt.
FD: It depends. Risk is in your head; change your thinking or maybe change your style.
The right debt is healthy and welcome. Example: buying a house with a loan.
- A home is not an inve…
I have been invested in bond OEFs since 2017 at about 95%.
Most of the performance I made in unique bond funds was much higher than your typical us gov , muni, and corp.
I also learned that investing based on predictions isn't a good idea.
I only …
@Crash
Anyhow, Israel is there, and like everyone else, deserves to live in peace and security. It seems to me they refuse to play nice with their neighbors. I do know how to include links. Here's one for you
Very naive and not based on facts.
I won…
This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.
US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries…
@Crash
So, prudently looking ahead and paying attention should just not be a thing?
Attention to what?
I always pay attention only to the markets and nothing to politics. I must see it in the price and charts, and when I do, I take action. I'm going…
I just want to thank the OP for helping to bring about a very lively and informative discussion, even if the outcome was not what he intended. It may just be a matter of time before the rose-colored glasses are out of season, or go way up in price. …
@Crash
Yes, the numbers are good, for the moment
I'm framing the above.
Why always look for the negative in every piece of news?
I want journalists to report the simple facts instead of making remarks about what could go wrong, unless they make rem…
When the general numbers don't work, try to find anything else.
We have seen many posts about eggs over $5, they went down to under $3, and where do you find it? in the mice letters on page 50.
wait, let's mention tariffs in every thread, no matter …
NPR the unbiased source? How about the WSJ (link).
"Inflation was tame in May, defying fears that the impact of President Trump’s tariffs would start to show a rise in prices.
Consumer prices rose 0.1% in May over the previous month, less than eco…
Obs,
If this is very worrisome, why didn't you start a similar thread 1-2-3 years ago?
We all know that the next posts are going to be very political.
Why not use the off-topic forum?
@hank said: "Inflation going down? Tell that to bond traders or the gold market."
... and Walmart.
We all know real inflation; the whole country witnessed it a couple of years ago. It was the highest inflation in 4 decades.
Life lived in a vacuum.
A vacuum is when hundreds of posts and media publications called for higher inflation in the last 4-5 months, and...the results are the opposite.
We are getting into politics. I will stay out now.
I didn't miss a thing. I don't pay attention to worries and predictions, only to actual data.
You can doubt everything. It's your choice.
Economists are far from being accurate for decades.
Lots of predictions, worries, noise and more.
The actual data is pretty good, with PCE = 2.1 (lowest in 4 year) + CPI=2.3(lowest in 3 year) + Nonfarm employment chugging along with lower Gov employees in the last several months.
The SP500 is up ove…
because cathie wood has made 1000X more money filching her investors rather than putting her own capital into her own investment vehicles. sound familiar? rich people always have their fans.
+1
There's a sucker born every minute.
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Again, Joe, there is nothing political in my post, just 2 numbers.
Why are you bringing your politics to every post I made?
Perhaps because politics has affected the quality of the numbers you are taking as gospel.
https://mutualfundobserver.com/di…
Not a single copy of After Yorktown in the public libraries of Maricopa County. I guess I'll have to buy one. :)
Have to agree that PRBLX lost its way. It used to be a steady low volatility fund. Sad to see Amazon in the top five holdings.
Total r…
"We the people" are those of us who still pay significant taxes. Those with the real wealth are largely immune from that burden.
Link.
The top 10 percent of income earners pay more than 60 percent of all federal taxes and 72 percent of income taxes,…
Can someone tell me how to play this good news tomorrow? Stocks? Bonds? Gold?
The usual and what I have said since January. Do nothing and stop reading the same one sided "news".
If you keep screaming the house is on fire 100 times about every…
I never invested based on inflows because they are not reliable.
Since 2000, I only used relative strength + the best risk/reward funds within leading wide range categories + only several funds.
It takes several years to practice it and get better. …
No need to guess.
YTD tells the story. As of yesterday:
SPY,QQQ,VTV(value) 0.9% to 1.7%
PDI(CEF), VTRIX (international value), VXUS(international), VGK(Europe) = 6.9%, 11.6% 14.9%, 21.3%
Inter leads Value Inter, and Europe leads all.
The above i…
Obs "This fund gained 7.2% a year from 07/01/2023 - 04/30/2025 with a standard deviation of just 0.5%!"
FD: Welcome to my world :-)
Take a look at HOSIX, the volatility is minimal = 1.2, performance at 9.8% annually.
https://www.portfoliovisualize…
Good read. My conclusion over decades is that good funds will continue to be top funds
in the future until markets change and why I started investing this way in 2000.
sounds as though you have done some backtesting.
I held a lot of tweix, cgmf…
Just follow the OP
"Please limit comments to how tariffs may impact the economy or investing.
This thread is not intended for political diatribes - please use Off Topic for that."
The SP500 was up over 2% today and is positive in 2025 regardless of…
Reality: Certain types of people regard their personal wealth accumulation as the most important aspect of any political administration.
Certain people have TDS all day long, and see everything and everyone thru this narrow window.
Politics don't o…
Several comments, some I said before:
1) My system signaled a buy on April 12th (link).
2) The tariffs are a bargaining tool; get used to it.
3) The SP500 is down less than 1% in 2025 regardless of the politics. The SP500 made 50% in 2023-4, are yo…
From the article
"The so-called 60/40 portfolio – long recommended for investors who want to balance exposure to risk with a cushion of safer, steady income – calls for allocating 60 per cent of holdings to stocks and 40 per cent to bonds. While a b…
Good read. My conclusion over decades is that good funds will continue to be top funds
in the future until markets change and why I started investing this way in 2000.
I kind of like some absolute return and market neutral funds. My favorites, which are EGRIX, BDMAX, and QMNNX keep chugging along. They have done well this year during an uncertain environment.
+1
Add to it QLENX.
Another option is to own the best…
Did you rant with the same passion about the rich 1-2-3-4-10 years ago?
Let's hear why it was better in that period.
The rich get richer is old news.
From memory, an average CEO used to make 30 times their average employee, it's over 300 times for …
