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Good read.
The opening sentence in the second paragraph has wrong information.
I thought you can not open a new financial account if your credit is frozen. The article says otherwise. At least that was my experience with Bank of America even…
@Junkster,
Appreciate you visiting and posting in this forum.
@rforno,
I have given much thought to your question. US default (even a tactical default) does not rank in the top 10 problems that would precede why our investments (other than US …
This site being run on a shoe string budget (and hence no moderation) is at the mercy of posters who hijack threads and investing discussions. Their sole aim is to drive away posters who wish to have investing discussion and eventual demise of the f…
Good thread.
For shareholder yield, the current practical ETF option is SYLD, the first one in the space and was able to grab the representative ticker. It has oscillated between Mid and small cap value overtime. I have looked at it a few times a…
@Sven,
I detailed in my first post all the problems I had with receiving codes through text and phone call on Thursday. It was a Vanguard specific issue not an At&T, my landline, or my newer model iPhone issue. That forced me to get their mob…
"The media needs something to rant about on an otherwise slow day I guess"
More than 95% of "news" from the 24/7 media is useless and redundant.
@FD1000, please explain how your post is relevant to this thread discussion so far. I have said to you…
@WABAC,
Bessent said last week that the administration is focused on long term (10 yr) rates because that is where capital investments happen and that they are not focused on federal funds rate.
After the last FOMC meeting, Trump said the Fed wa…
Congrats.
You should be able to move positions by electronic transfer. Before you submit the request at the receiving firm, make sure each of the position you want to move can be held at the receiving firm.
Also, I would move positions by partial…
Everyone thinks Trump cares about the stock market and there is a constant drum beat about it. Everything he cares about is subservient to what he cares about the most.
@dryflower,
There are plenty of brokerages that will be happy to have you as a client. I would not stay with them if they paid you 2% per year of your account value as a bonus to stay. But that is me.
From my vantage point, it seems to me they…
Oh dear, did someone trigger FD1000 today?
Just addressing Trigger. All things that cause one to lose their mind can make them to act similarly. For example, fans of a team that wins a championship riot (burning cars, breaking windows, etc.). A …
does vanguard have a basic authenticator (network-free) service?
am hesitant to use yubikey.
I am guessing you are looking for the Solution in my post. You will need Wi-Fi though.
Edit: Feel free to go to the "A Solution" at the bottom of this post and skip the body of this post about the problems I had logging into my Vanguard account.
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Does anyone here use the Vanguard two factor authentication to login?
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@habsui,
It was probably a while ago since you dealt with your 2023 tax return but if you remember any quirks you encountered because of the transition year 1099s for that year, please share.
Even with MLP investments, I do not recall ever recei…
Thanks.
FYI - if your TD account was transitioned over to Schwab, I am told by Schwab rep that both of your consolidated 1099s will appear on the 1099 Dashboard under the new Schwab account number (and not in a separate, clearly identified subsec…
Why is that this forum insists on ignoring context of a question while proceeding to lecture the questioner?
Sometimes, I wonder if FD was alone in his approach to the forum.
Thanks.
FYI - if your TD account was transitioned over to Schwab, I am told by Schwab rep that both of your consolidated 1099s will appear on the 1099 Dashboard under the new Schwab account number (and not in a separate, clearly identified subsec…
When winning a conversation is more important than relevance and accuracy, it is unproductive and harmful to the uninformed reader / onlooker but that has been one of the themes of this forum.
That is fine. The important part of my post is the second para. I did not want to sound cold and so I added the first para. But readers are welcome to focus on whatever makes them happy.
IMO,
a larger percentage of old MAGA and Hispanics for Trump need more consumer protection than any other group in this country or anyone in this forum. They are probably drunk asleep giddy with their cultural (i.e., non fiscal social) agenda win…
Creation/redemption mechanism requires inflows/outflows from authorized-participants. If disrupted, the etf may move to CEF-like premium/discount - this has happened in the past.
Yes, market price deviation from NAV can result from closing new creat…
FYI - I just happen to remember (notice) that Vanguard does not have an account level setting for "Cost Basis Method" for stocks / ETFs and one has to select the Cost Basis Method for each stock / ETF separately. Of course, one can change this befo…
I am mildly interested in a lower cost prime money market. As of right now the share price of PMMF is not unchanged. It is slightly up … Does this account not have a stable share price? Is it really just another bond fund trying to market itself a…
Assuming I am not worried about the transaction fees and the minimums, should I have a preference between ATOIX and FHMIX?
For example, a good reason could be if any of you had a bad experience with the respective fund family administration, such…
Good products. Other firms are too greedy to come out with similar products first. One for competition.
@Derf,
ETFs do not work as well as MM funds for me for trading because I have to sell ETFs first before I am allowed to buy what I want to bu…
"The only person/entity who can authoritatively answer that is.. Schwab, no?"
I can talk to five different reps at any brokerage and get five different answers. I talked to two of them at Schwab before opening the thread.
of the short term variety, I like ATOIX over MEAR (best ETF to my eye) for ATOIX's near straight line chart. Their Jan distributions are nearly similar ~3%.
Edit: both ATOIX and MEAR are only ~$800M AUM funds. I bought MEAR today but any addit…
Thanks, @msf.
I guess you meant to say, "Deductibility of IRA [contribution]s is based on another form of MAGI" If so, that missing word made it difficult to understand.
