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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
@msf, I think your musings must be accurate and the very case for these funds. Tyvm!
Only somewhat off-topic:
Fidelity hired me maybe 20y ago to write/rewrite, bundle, simplify and clarify retail bond mfund materials. Reduce their number too. Dra…
Yes, you mentioned short stuff re FXAIX, I believe. I did not infer it was unavailable, not at all. But why do you think A's strategy statement is as it is, compared w FDFIX. Why does A not have the last sentence that D has? Something lawyerly? And …
I have received shorting fees from Fidelity for decades depending on the fund or stock, so I think I understand that process.
D’s zero ER leads to another instance of the question Why does it not then outperform and become another clear winner in a…
Great stuff.
To review:
I asserted FXAIX was (simply) the best of the (plain-vanilla) SP500 indices.
Let us take your 5y as the period of merit. Here is $10k growth w reinvesting:
USPRX - $12,098.17. Loser. Oi. Quite aside from the yuge min.
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the best, FXAIX
The best for you and undeniably one of the best. But simply the best, better than all the rest?
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ETFs offer greater accessibility at possibly lower trading cost (bid/ask spread vs. TF at many non-Fidelity brokerages). Instituti…
@FD1000, you will be well served if you listen to right-wing nut Tucker Carlson interview right wing nut and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes the other day. This is the same Nick Fuentes that right wing nut Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for fin…
fd1k, read this from hcr:
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Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House measure to fund th…
The House minority whip, Dem Katherine Clark, admits the shutdown was used as leverage. Hear the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzgtcIAdsgE)
So? What could you possibly have thought it was? And you know why and what about, right?
Boy do I …
This is insanely alarming.
It's easy to understand that the infantile Trump responses to Epstein pressures were fantasy expulsion, dumping diarrhea on his opponents, and actual destruction, wantonly tearing down a large part of the People's House.…
yeah, what part of no fucking kings is not clear??
a quarter-millennium ago
(hcr)
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On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on the seaport town that is now known as Portland, Maine. Under the direct…
@Mark,@hank. Side sleeper here,,, bad left shoulder and bad right hip. Nowhere to turn to…plus my cat has something to say about how I sleep as well … seriously this all started since I turned 76.
I see in hindsight that I did not fully believe o…
We have a Super bull which just eats super grains (Crypto) & breath's black smoke (fossil fuel), Just wait and see. Biden's bull were on fake feed (spending/stimulus which I started by the way and Biden copied and took credit for good time), we …
FD1k:
- Biden had a ceasefire 10mos ago.
If this one is any good and sticks, you will see celebrating and credit bigtime.
Hard to tell what is wrong with you, I gotta say.
- The James and Comey cases are the opposite of stunning and will resu…
SMiller, some pure Reichspeak:
\\ We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And for those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us: What do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are…
diphenhydramine is a nasty med even though pediatricians have long been seduced by it (conks kids out among other things)
it also is connected to cognition changes in older adults
you can take several loratadine and that class daily if necessary…
You certainly need to do antihistamines before anything else, ingested and topical, along with ice
Not nsaids or steroids first
This is even for those who are not “allergic”
No stinger to remove almost always
Then cortisone
Just went through …
so so confused
QDSNX:
Asset Class% Net Short Long
U.S. Equity 8.23 127.53 135.76
Non-US Equity 6.68 89.05 95.73
Fixed Income 12.79 278.80 291.59
Other 37.97 4.41 42.39
Cash 29.33 174.56 203.89
Not Classified 4.98 0.44 5.42
jfc fuckaduck1k, THERE IS NO COVERAGE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS !
I cannot believe somehow so ostentatiously data-driven reposts the big Fox / GOP lie about all of this.
ffs ffs, man
Dems is the DDD party. Deny, dismiss, and downplay everything.
Dems cry, the stock market flies.
Trump signed with Pfizer. It's only for Medicaid. I wish it was for Medicare.(https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/trump-pharmaceutical-tariffs-pfizer-deal.h…
the insults hurt so bad (Krugman today)
'On Monday Chris Wright, the energy secretary, declared — in a weirdly dated culture war cliché — that coal is “out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and New York City.”'
