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And to put things in perspective, a real all time inflation adjusted high for gold would be around $2300 and for silver around $130.
I have to call this as a gold bug BS! Those prices are as measured from the previous peak of these metals. Why do yo…
As many people do in this board, hold a couple of top performing funds in each category so you if one of the managers lose their mojo, you are not affected too much. You can even play to the monentum of these managers shifting monies from the one th…
I believe stagnation and inflation cannot last for too long... One or the other has to give up.
If it is a slowing economy, commodity demand will slow. For example, our fuel consumption will slow. Also, our ability to import foreign goods will dim…
Risk grades simply a normalized volatility measure that gives more weight to more recent price changes. It is rather simple. You can download the technical paper from their web site and input the formula to a spread sheet along with price data from …
Again, it looks like everyone is assuming China is going to continue to grow at this rate forever as well as US will forever is slow growth mode.
Trees do not grow to sky indefinitely. Starting from a low base, growth is easy. It becomes more and …
Mo, if you search WSJ articles via Google and paste the Google search link, the article is often readable that way. Direct linking often does not work.
With China (with so much more population) if the total GDP (assuming it is measured correctly at all) is greater than US does that mean they overtook?
With per capita GDP of 2.5K for (China) vs 45K (for US) did US really decline?
Hey Mo. You did great.
I agree Small Business is the key...
However, until small business picks up austerity can further cause life for small business more difficult.
See government spending also supports a lot of small businesses. A lot of smal…
Hawk,
It is always fascinating to know those few 10 baggers that come and go. How about all others that was invested as mad money and lost a whole boat load? Nobody likes to talk about them.
Just talking about those few winners gives the false imp…
I do not think Bernanke will reveal anything outside of the Fed report. He will probably clarify potential misconceptions about the written announcement and will preempt the hawks that were muddying the message of the committee.
All other questions…
The cheerleaders of America's doom will be proved wrong again.
First, IMF is a European dominated organization and the message is a bit politically motivated. If IMF wants a fair comparison they should have compared per capita GDP. Some 45K for US…
Of the funds you have listed only thee PIMCO Total Return fund is bond fund. Other funds you listed (Target Retirement funds) have some bonds but they are not pure bond funds.
If you need more bonds, get PTTAX (assuming it is load waived in 401k). …
Hi Catch22. You do not have to divide your post into two discussions.
Just divide it into two posts in the same discussion. Post the first half as the discussion and second part as reply to yourself.... That way, you keep both parts together and al…
Both are making concentrated bets in that managers are deciding to invest only in a small number of positions they are comfortable with. With both, you can make the argument you are taking more "manager risk" rather than "market risk".
There is st…
The never ending problem is that too many "better" funds of the past did not pan out to be better funds of the future. Expenses are guaranteed. Future returns are not.
I agree some funds were supported by the parent company in the form of purchasing some of the illiquid assets or basically reducing costs charged to investors to 0 (while it still cost to the company something). But when the dust settled, only funds…
Thanks chip. Making more observations I found that sometimes the draft is left behind and in other cases it is deleted after posting is done. I will try to get something more definitive. I might be doing something that is confusing the software.
I really like Fidelity Low Priced Stock fund at fidelity (FLPSX). Originally a small cap fund, this fund is now more of a global mid cap offering. Good risk/reward balance.
I like Fidelity Growth Company fund (FDGRX). It is a closed fund however. A…
Fidelity has $7.95 trades. A bit higher than Scottrade but very competitive. Fidelity also offers 31 no-fee ETFs that cover major asset classes.
Having said that your friend's broad brush of Fidelity is probably unfair. Fidelity is not a single com…
I believe, you can create an online Google Doc Spreadsheet by importing your exported CSV file from M* and share the link to it here.
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/spreadsheets/
It used to be that Fidelity would enforce the $2500 min. for FIDO funds. That changed sometime late 2008, 2009 quietly. They did not officially change it per prospectus but now they allow at $500 typically and you can build up from there.
They will…
In the IRA you can buy these funds at much lower minimum (even though it generally says $2500). Try buying at $500. It will warn you but will go through anyway. You can then build your position gradually or when Fidelity warns you of minimum assets,…
Take a look at Fidelity Natural Resources fund (FNARX). These are stocks of companies that are involved in production of natural resources.
If you want something for more diversified, Fidelity Global Commodity fund (FFGCX) which includes agricultu…
I used to own this. I now prefer Fidelity Low-Priced stock (FLPSX) istead. It is a high beta fund. It goes up well in bull market and drops even more severely in bears. It is hard for most people to hold it with such swings. Pay attention to the the…
