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  • Invesco website says 5.44% comes from underlying funds - holdings look a mix of funds and individual MLPs. Why would there be funds within anything called "Select". https://www.invesco.com/us/financial-products/mutual-funds/product-detail?audienceTy…
  • Because they can? *shrug* Heck, there's also a 5.50 front-end load and .25 12(b)-1 fee as well, just in case you really wanted to twist the knife into your gut. Run fast, run far. In such cases, I'd definitely use an ETF .. there are several. Jus…
  • @rforno, They have been migrating accounts in stages for more than a year and they had migrated employee accounts first. Since mine (and @graust) were one of the last accounts to move over, I thought Schwab would have figured out all issues by the …
  • I recall my Fidelity Visa card had been 2% from the getgo, but evidently my memory is faulty. Never had to ask for 2%. Have dealt w Elan a lot and no problems, except that the card gets hacked a lot. I have replaced ours maybe 4 times the last year-…
  • Scummy, blind greed. DO them. DO THEM hard and deep and long. Boeing must be gutted and start from scratch. Shareholders would be GRATEFUL, eh? As a former BA shareholder in large quanties, HELL TO THE YEAH. At this point it's not just 'mistakes' …
  • Thanks, Yogi. Good idea. @rforno, I called the transition team to get an ETA on the lot history so I do not check before that date and was told there is no pending work on it (i.e., no ETA) as they are not aware of any issues. (I had to disclose …
  • When I moved from TD to Schwab in 2020 after the merger was announced, it took a few days for my cost basis / history to populate, but it did. Same thing happened when I transferred that Schwab account into a new Schwab account last fall so I could…
  • Glad it's not just me. @Hank, we have similar reading tastes. I also have come to appreciate the crowdsourced comments on SeekingAlpha as well -- many times there's more useful nuggets there from knowlegeable folks like us than the authors who are…
  • And the joust is officially underway ! Not in it for a fight, but cue the Star Trek fight music anyway! :)
  • This ought to be a fun thread. Something about dividends seems to get some folks animated. :) It usually does over @ Bogleheads. :) As a dividend investor I don't really care about dividends that are 0-3.0 yield. So what if Apple pays 0.55%? I…
  • Either way you still need to buy/sell a MMF or other cashy fund @ Schwab to make the $$$ available to avoid a short-term margin loan. (T-1 helps, but still, that friction is annoying)
    in T+2 to T+1 Comment by rforno May 8
  • Woot! Congrats David and Chip!
  • One year/quarter a trend does not make and I just let the position do its thing ... I see no reason for concern w/PRWCX or Giroux at this point, or anytime soon pending some major oddities coming from him or the fund. Many of you know I don't care …
  • Thanks @rforno….a good reason to hold ETF “cash-like” holdings for “investable cash” once we move to Schwab. Much obliged. FWIW saying, if I wanted to move my cash into a fund, I would own an cash-like ETF or t-bill vs a Schwab fund --- just on pri…
  • As Cory Doctorow says about such things, the 'enshittification' of the world continues. Somewhat relatedly (but a tangent, I admit) yesterday ATT dropped all their consumer plans down a tier in terms of QCI service levels just so they could launch …
  • Slightly OT question (for a Buy/Sell thread), but we are moving to Schwab for good from TD Ameritrade next weekend: are the money market holdings at Schwab considered investable cash, or do you have to sell the money market funds first and then trad…
  • @rforno … it was really interesting with a lot of good information. Examining the heatmap, personally, I’m hoping for a rebound for REITs, and have a big bet on RQI for a down payment in 2 years to buy out my auto lease. One item was not helpful…on…
  • @junkster, Two years ago, I would not have expected floating rate stuff to do well for this long. JBBB and JAAA are green today. Most of my monies is in CLOs (floating rate) and my complacency there worries me. Even Barron’s is extolling the vi…
  • Well, DJT is up, anyhow. Go figure. Nah, he's still napping....
  • Started 500s HESM in my Schwab income-oriented account. Will double it in the coming days depending on the market moves ... but as this is newsy week w/the FOMC, I prefer to tranche into positions, especially when it's commission-free. :)
  • Order placed for a new position EVRG (ute) and also added to existing BEP (ute/renewable) in my long-long term account.
  • @Crash, just for info. For another way to sell, my preference most often is to use 'trailing stop'. In that way you can ride the stock higher before it starts to significantly drop. Why cut the flowers before they've fully grown. There are some reas…
  • Yup. I always use GTC-EXT @ Schwab --- very handy, especially in cases where liquidity is tight and you're only partially filled after pulling the trigger. Plus, even if the trade is open for a few days as it fills, you're only paying one commiss…
  • In the meantime, I checked that ETF CCOR is recognized by Yahoo Finance, StockCharts, MFO Premium, M* Investor (strangely, the name Core Alternative ETF is recognized, but not the ticker CCOR). M* Home recognizes the name Core Alternative ETF, but t…
  • @rforno, Apologies. I am sure you corrected me before. I am terrible at remembering names. Hopefully, it will stick this time. Thanks No worries!
  • From Bloomy - "Boeing raised $10 billion from a bond sale on Monday that attracted about $77 billion of orders and allowed the planemaker to ease some of its financial strains by refinancing part of its massive debt load. The outsized demand for th…
  • Thanks, Ron and Shadow. May 1, with FOMC activity, could be a market moving day. [narrator] "It's actually 'Rick'". :)
  • @rforno, May 1st is only a couple of days away. Any additional info you are able to share about CPSM? The mechanics may be simple. The fund could just buy 1 year collar from a legitimate counterparty. Nope, I was just passing along the BBG s…
  • I cannot remember any company that within a month of its IPO is begging Congress (let alone market makers) to save its falling share price. Apparently their CEO (a former GQP congresscritter) believes that 'free markets' are great only when you can…
  • What would happen if stock trading was available around the clock Some "investors" would get very little sleep! ;-) First thing that came to my mind as well! Go to sleep. Wake up during the night. Go to bathroom. Short something. Back to bed.…
  • The motivating factor may not be necessarily demand side. The supply side infrastructure has been built and those that built the exchanges and the pipes might want to offer the service to monetize their cap ex. Any revenue is better than zero Agree…
  • Question for you smart guys, so given all this talk on divie's, the only reason to pick a stock that gives higher dividends than other stocks is if it is held in a taxable account since dividends are taxed less than regular income, right? There is z…
  • @rforno, new M* Investors (subscription) does have downloadable 1- or 2- page PDFs. Here is a sample for FMSDX that I uploaded to PDF Host and linked below for demonstration. More can get me into trouble. In the old days, these PDFs were free at M*,…
  • The Refinitiv ones are quantitatively helpful to corroborate things elsewhere, but I don't really put a TON of emphasis on them (or any research) in my own analysis. I like that I can get M* equity reports in the old-school PDF format can make for …
  • Equity markets and their traders* need time to breathe, to pause, and assess - especially around news/earnings events. Turning the equity markets into 24x7 cryptocurrency will be significantly destabilizing, even if some think it's 'cool' and a 'gr…
  • Exited the small position in PSQ (inverse NASDAQ).. Pocketed a few pennies from last week’s romp - but too hot to handle. Added to CCOR and SJB. I’m completely out of my shorts, except the small bit in SJB - which shorts junk bonds. If we encoun…
  • Let us get back on track. "The higher umbrella coverage you have you can bet your arse that your insurance company will fight like tooth and nails to defend you....the senior attorney's will work the case...they don't want to pay up..." May be the…
  • WZRD didn't lose money this past month, stayed flattish. Low volume on many days, as it is new. Well since it's pretty much still only holding cash or cash-like stuff, that would make sense.... WZRD managed to gain +.58% yesterday, so maybe it d…
  • Interesting new retail product issued by one of the original "Market Wizards", Larry Benedict. It dabbles in multiple option strategies, commodities, equities (momentum - he likes Tech), but can move to cash, etc. It charges ~1% Fees. WZRD did…