Morningstar Premium Subscription Pros & Cons You try their 2 weeks free trial membership, and then cancel if you don't like. You can also try it a big longer as they remimurse the remaining amount on pro-rate basis. I am also of the view that it is not worth.
At one time, I used to eagerly read their Fun commentaries (Fund Spy, etc.) that normally used to come on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays. In addition, there was a Fund Times (if I remember the name correctly) that used to have Weekly commentary about Fund Mgr changes and a commentary on significant fund industry events for that Week. It seems they stopped publishing latter now.
I just skim their articles with less enthusiam, but an avid reader and follower of their discussion forums for last 10 years. There were some great posters and still there are some. It is not as friendly forum as MFO, but depth of knowedge is much more there due to number of participants (no slight intended for MFO, as I am also follower of it since FundAlarm days). Their forums lost some great posters since Vanguard Diehards/Bogleheads moved out and started their own discussion forum/Web site.
In my personal opinion, if you are a participant of M* and MFO forums, I don't think you need paid subscription for anything. People discuss, post great links to great articles, Fund Mgr interviews/commentaries and what not. They guide you on how to learn and how to setup an investment portfolio even if you are a novice.
PQTDX remains impressive;YIKES update, POP and down -3.1% .....currencies, I will guess. YTD gone. QSPIX was down big, also: -2%. With the cap gone, the Swiss franc's move up was wild. The C'shares etf (FXF) was up 17%.
PQTDX remains impressive;YIKES update, POP and down -3.1% .....currencies, I will guess. YTD gone. Not a good day for PQTIX. Down 3.1%
Yikes.
Probably due to FX movements.
PQTDX remains impressive;YIKES update, POP and down -3.1% .....currencies, I will guess. YTD gone. Not a good day for PQTIX. Down 3.1%
Yikes.
Junkster give my $500 to charity Sounds to me like you guys are in violation of a whole passel of federal regs re on-line gambling and wagering. Unfortunately my conscience requires that I report all of this to the proper authorities. However, my conscience can be easily disabled if somebody sends me a check for, oh hell, make it $20.... I hate to gouge.
LOL! The only gambling fool here is me. They stood to lose nothing. Even when I was
100% in the munis early last year no way did I think the
10 year would fall below 2%. And I still think no way will it fall to
1%. The only trend I see here is me being wrong!
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Junkster give my $500 to charity Dex, mailed my $250 my check to heezsafe the other day. If I have to pay you off will send it to you and you can do whatever with it. But we have a ways to go there. I'm 100% in junk munis too now and will try and stay with the trend and have some sort of exit strategy in place. Markets tend to surprise. If we have some sort of dramatic economic slowdown that could impact the lower rated munis and the place to be would be investment grade. I am licking my chops hoping hi yield corporates fall out of bed as they will be the next great thing somewhere down the road like they were in December 2008.
For Healthcare Investors, A Medical Breakthrough ETF. The portion of the healthcare sphere that involves robotics, wearables, bionics etc has huge growth potential. For someone with a long time to invest these are the kinds of future stocks that hold a lot of promise.
@JohnChisum, are you aware of any funds/ETFs/CEFs that focus on these areas?
Here's a question I keep thinking about and asking myself when I consider new healthcare investments: The expense ratios of these "passive" ETFs seems to fall between 50 and
100 basis points whereas Vanguard offers an active fund for only 30 basis points, T Rowe Price's healthcare fund costs 79 basis points and Fidelity's biotech fund costs 75 basis points. Are there any good reasons to go passive when you only have to pay 25 or 30 basis points for someone to be a bit more selective with your money and how to invest it, and especially in cases where the active funds have lower costs than the ETFs?
Junkster give my $500 to charity Junkster awhile ago in a discussion I said the US 10 year will go to 1% before it goes to 3%.
It is in the 1.7% area today and with the Swiss' interest rates at 0%, it won't be too long until the US hits the 1%.
I'm still 100% in US High Yield Muni Bonds and I think they will do well this year and maybe several years in this low rate environment. I can sleep very well at night with this - thanks for pointing it out.
The way things are going - low interest rates and strong US$, there may come a time when High Yield Emerging Markets and other foreign bonds will be the investment.
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The Closing Bell: U.S. Stocks Slip As Banks Stumble Ha!
Everyday, another stock in my portfolio drops 5%.
Did add to BAC on the (let's hope) "dip".
It's now off 16.5% from about one month ago.
That's more than the stock gained in all of 2014.
Good grief.
The Closing Bell: U.S. Stocks Slip As Banks Stumble
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For Healthcare Investors, A Medical Breakthrough ETF. Ugly day for biotech
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Money flow is decidedly negative today for (IBB -2%) (BIB -3.9%) biotech. For whatever reason, there always seems to be a sell-off at the end of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.
ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF Dow Jones
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PQTDX remains impressive;YIKES update, POP and down -3.1% .....currencies, I will guess. YTD gone. About the PQTIX portfolio allocation, it's all over the place from month to month. Here's the range of exposures from April (when I first started following it) through December 2014, per the monthly spreadsheets:
Equity 2-54%
Currencies 16-43%
Rates 0-72%
Commodities 0-13%
Volatility 0-23%
PQTDX remains impressive;YIKES update, POP and down -3.1% .....currencies, I will guess. YTD gone. Hi
@mnzdedwardsI don't dismiss their methods or all of the tools that they have available to move in this special market area. One needs to be aware that these type of funds are not plain jane equity funds.
But charting the performance of PQTDX , during its short life (
1 year), indicates they have had success with their formulas during a decent equity market in 20
14 and a rough equity market start this year. During this one year period has found many swings in many market areas: equity, bond and currency.
Thank you for your thoughts with this.
Regards,
Catch
