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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.
\\\ Constitution doesn't prevent our ruling elites from trampling on our rights. And sometimes it gets corrected. This week the US Supreme Court overturned by 8-0 an Obama administration trademark ruling against a music group. The Trademark Office …
I so wish someone would hit that rule with a bus and dump it in the river. Such bullshit. If you really believe it (no one does), you never invest, period.
So is this the beginning of a time of testing for CAPE?
Ten days ago it diverged significantly downward from SP500 quality indexes: SPHQ, SCHDH, DVY, NOBL, OUSA, and similar. RPS is in the middle of these since midweek last week.
What does this …
:)
History primer review today from PK twitter:
The key to what's going on goes back to the origins and logic of that conservative solution Romneycare. It was an attempt to make healthcare available to people with preexisting conditions.
One answ…
@msf
>> Something I've been meaning to post on is what strikes me as unappreciated risk profiles of non-vanilla investments. Leverage, embedded options (MBS), other forms of investment "engineering" can enhance performance on average. But IST…
@msf
>> If I wanted to be sure I still had the $100K in six months I'd put it all in PTIAX.
That is what I was responding to, with unclear mapping.
As for 'many bond funds', maybe, but compare shorter recovery of FSICX and nonexistent dip, …
Sure, except for its nontrivial dip starting last November which took till mid-Feb to recover from!
GABCX might be a better bet, maybe, in the mostly-nonbond space, and there are others of course
not following
rocklike ? --- some good short-term-bond etf
homer swing? --- CGMFX
or an individual stock. Barnes. Some biopharm. A fang, or all of them.
Come on, a wack question.
It may be all over soon but the actual on-the-ground catastrophe.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/obamacare-is-not-collapsing-unless-republicans-kill-it.html
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/6/15/15807986/obamacare-lies-obstructio…
Fortunate 'I've got mine' Ted hasn't kept up with the new ACA sabotage, without which it would not be anybody's idea of failing.
Not to worry, it will all be over soon, and ACA will be looked back at with the most intense longing.
12-24x salary, depending, and this after factoring in SS or equivalent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbiggs/2016/07/21/how-much-retirement/#7500aa4a4d28
I am a big believer in cheap debt in retirement, but that is a minority take to many, an…
If the cash from ML is that much of an incentive, talk to Fidelity. They'll probably give you cash or some free trades to stay (speaking from experience).
yeah, I see I now have a msg from them; gee, that was quick (I queried them last night)
gee, …
@BobC,
I have not followed sufficiently their evilness as to policies or past practices. We use BoA for everything (check, save, mortgage, cheap heloc, cred cards now unused) and ML is their brokerage. (We go back 50y w BoA predecessors, local bran…
Surely someone smarter than I (Charles, e.g.) could grok this sort of thing and extrapolate forward or better yet find updated data...
https://www.markettamer.com/blog/the-best-performance-from-a-fang-since-dracula
this from just a hasty googling
had proposed to me tonight by ML to move accounts to them from Fido
most Fido funds and similar can be moved and reinvested in, even if not purchased anew outright --- ML does not offer them in the first place
includng DSEEX, which ML does not off…
Just the former.
I don't know about your loop, but key ACA precepts were out of the rightwing Heritage Foundation and first implemented by Romney in Mass., all the while loudly touted and analyzed as classic conservative-values solutions. Individu…
As with ACA, which from the getgo was a genuinely conservative solution in intents and details (personal responsibility and all that), the wholesale arguments against D-F are largely uninformed (polite term) and halfbaked. Frank himself, like ACA ex…
You also can just track RSP since its May 03 inception and can get a sense of how it has outperformed SP500 (from 14y down to ~4y) and then underperformed SP500 (the last 3-4y).
While CAPE has trounced both over its 4.7y life.
Interesting the deg…
No mention of NOBL and OUSA. An interesting analysis of how they parse their space, but all (I think, did not check in detail) are beaten by CAPE (yes, not notionally a div play per se).
