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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.
Why are you posting this? Until today MINT was down $7.50 on a thou for the last week, not terrible of course, but no, not 'a safe place to park your cash'.
I don't know what he owns or invests in, or necessarily want to, probably indexes, although I worry about both kids, even more about their age cohort, and above all about my grandkids and their future. Etc etc etc.
(Otoh he just took a job w McKins…
When my son was in college in the early 2000s and majoring in econ and writing analytic papers on tech companies, he mentioned that he thought Apple looked good and really promising, still bright future, etc. I said Aw, man, look at its recent runup…
Moon-aiming or not, Miller outperformed for a very long stint (a decade, was it?) and through all sorts of markets --- which is all I was pointing out. I maybe recall it being touted as prudent at the time, some of the time anyway. Not gogo.
>> I sold ... PINCX ... BCOIX
>> I bought PINCX+BCOIX earlier last week
short-term-trading penalties / fees ?
PAID $49.95 ST for PINCX. Paid nothing for BCOIX. Made thousands :-)
I don't pay for buying Inst shares, selling doesn't …
VLAAX
\\ Not familiar with the VL option you mention.
VLAAX
be sure to use MFOP
Ok thanks. But as a diversifier in substitution for a foreign /international sector position...? Isn't VL a broad spectrum balanced fund?
by VL I meant Value…
his badness has been pretty consistent, ouch, ouch
23 stocks, or so
http://portfolios.morningstar.com/fund/holdings?t=CGMFX®ion=usa&culture=en-US
if I were still in it, and had only a few thou remaining or whatever, I would stick, just…
exactly
one other reason for my sticking w ML is that my wife if widowed can go into any BoA office and ask for help, or at least good instructions of what to do / where to call for next steps
same, partly, farther away, for Fido
What everyone else says. I use ML and Fidelity, and the former is handy if you have checking/savings and mortgages at BoA, but there seems no longer any compelling reason to use them otherwise, to the contrary. And everyone likes Schwab so much that…
@johnN
>> According to the left media : 70-80% will get it and die because they dont have universal insurance coverage. Trump did create and cause the virus /usa to be worsen. Mass casualties for sure and we should bunker up/head for isolatio…
this is most interesting; I know the doc
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/treatment-covid-19-coronavirus-re-purposing-common-castro-m-d-/?trackingId=0PK/T/AKSmiOMowrX+WOuA==
Yeah, this aligns with the views of docs at the Harvard Health newsletter, one of whom recently wrote that while zinc lozenges may well shorten the length of cold symptoms by a day or so, he himself found it hardly worth it, given how crummy it make…
@Gundlar,
Why seek ye something better?
Just graphed everybody since the 23rd of Feb, obvs not counting today, and GLRBX looks good too, like ValueLine and PRWCX --- marginally better than the others. Longterm is v different for it, naturally. Y…
