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"since you have so much time ahead, the time to invest all that cash is now, and just ride out dip"
Yes, absolutely. At fifty, you will have lots of ups and downs ahead. Stay the course!
It's a pretty sure bet that the "latest and greatest" algorithms haven't been constructed to compensate for the market going nuts due to other algorithms doing silly things. Not to worry though... after the next spectacular machine-driven crash they…
Like msf said... kinda like threading a fairly good sized rope through the eye of a needle. Not to worry, though.. pretty soon our glorious leader will simplify all of this stuff down to a level that even he can understand, then the rest of us will …
@LewisBraham- I guess that you realize that asking thoughtful questions such as these, and your willingness to consider alternative possibilities totally disqualifies you from holding any elective office.
Sad.
"It's also scary the sense to which all of us are now being monitored online."
@LewisBraham- The data set referred to in the Vox article was most likely "sanitized", (i.e. no personal information included) but still, it's most likely that someone a…
@LB- Thanks for that link. The situation reminds me a bit of the current wildfires in Northern California: there is so much danger on so many fronts that it makes it almost impossible to focus on a single area long enough to accomplish any effective…
Wonderful. Just wonderful. Let's take the people who have guided the Fed through one of the most challenging financial periods in the history of this nation and reward them by throwing them out.
Totally sick.
"Lies, darn lies, and statistics. Always try to understand what the numbers really mean"
@msf- I do, I do, but without someone like yourself to show the way it's sometimes pretty hopeless. You remind me of Gandalf. Thanks so much for your ongoing c…
"excited, inflammatory, and provocative reactions"
Wow. Whoda thought??? Seemed pretty commonplace to me.
@MJG: Hold on there... cannabis will be legally available pretty soon... should calm you down a bit.
Not to be mean, but it would seem to mean that MJG's quote: "over much longer, meaningful periods of time (referring to years), the surest rule in the stock market is the rule called "regression to the mean." is essentially meaningless.
"How to make money is what this board should be about. Buy----Sell-----Ponder: it's what they want."
@Puddnhead- You're absolutely right on that. I've lost track of the number of funds that I've bought or sold over the years because of discussions …
Once again Ted allows his personal animus towards Catch to belittle him. Ted evidently thinks that other MFO members find this sort of thing to be attractive.
Yet another example, as if any more were needed, of his misguided belief that he has resp…
@Old_Skeet- I'm quite sure that none of the above commentary is aimed in your direction. In fact, it's been my observation that the "buy, sell, and ponder thread" has consistently been one of the most popular ongoing conversations.
It's true that i…
Speaking as a (potentially crotchety) old guy, I surely agree with Mike regarding the possibility of "turning off beginning investors, whether those visitors are young or old."
Personally, I especially appreciate posts from those less-often heard f…
@hank- Right on!! That WAPO article re Pruitt is plain disgusting. Why should anyone be allowed to know what our leaders are doing? We're more of a third-world outfit every passing day.
I use the free version of M*, with good results, assuming that the M* data is current and accurate... which is probably an unwarranted leap of faith. (Then again, the Google data is sometimes a bit flaky also.) I copy/paste the M* data into a spread…
@Anna- Yep, sure does. Also can't count the times Ted has kicked a post into the "Discussions +" category because he is apparently unable to resist trying to impose his personal views on everyone else. Kind of self-defeating, as I've pointed out to …
Given Maurice's observation re McCain, and extending that to Collins, Murkowski, et al, one must wonder why the Republicans wasted their time and energy on this last attempt.
Was it all a show for the "base"??
