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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.
@Ben, if you are in the mood, you might take a look at fido, who now have all manner of funds even cheaper than vanguard (zero cost) and whose c/s is pretty good and rigorously trained
not saying the funds are better than vanguard's best (!)
tnx; will probably go w TRBCX if I buy anything new (huge dip, say), although I am sorely intrigued by BIVRX now, tnx to Snowball; not part of this discussion, really
Right about Merrill offerings.
Dunno DSE_X answer, but presumably, almost certainly no. Maybe I did ask. Fwiw, when I moved accounts from Fido to M, DSEEX went without hitch and is DSEEX at Merrill now, no prob.
Have bought only DSENX since at M, …
No, not international at all, but LV; buys and sells monthly within the SP500 according to rules involving valuations.
Oh sorry, for some reason I saw the letters and thought of the European version. I must be getting old. Hell, I've owned DSENX fo…
Does not apply to me, since, as I think I have posted before, but maybe not, I buy DSENX and then convert asap to DSEEX, which Fidelity now does promptly (always done for free). A reclassification worth knowing about there. Merrill does not offer.
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Not in my Fidelity Roth IRA, so far as I can see anyway, and a $50 TF as well.
Will doublecheck in a few days when I have new cash to deploy; it is more reliable to attempt a transaction than go by their footnotes.
Boy, those two sure are winners, and with TRBCX are among the few LC I have seen (have not done an obsessive search, though; maybe there are many LG) to have outperformed DSEEX since its 11/13 inception. I don't believe I have ever had so much in a …
No, not international at all, but LV; buys and sells monthly within the SP500 according to rules involving valuations.
Do a search here, several have analyzed it thoroughly, and its own writeups are clear enough, at least on the surface. Buy the ch…
Oh, Ted the soybean farmer, what does it mean, what does it mean? How does one know? How you do we develop the timing and the judgment and the insights? What are the steps to becoming savvy in these ways?
'You gotta learn to play it right'. Right.…
point was telling people to know when to hold or fold should always be met w wtf wtf wtf does that even mean?
the tautology of telling your kids they will need to develop good judgment in life, and that starts with having and showing good judgment
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there is always, always wisdom in unfathomable, inactionable bromides
first rule is don't lose money, second rule is etc
it's a stockpickers' market
invest for the long term
it was a swan of some color, a storm of some perfection
if you can't s…
always sensible discussions that upon inspection can seem truly wack:
'The basic [bucket] idea is that you are putting a couple of years' worth of portfolio withdrawals in cash ... [and] ... like another eight years' worth of portfolio withdrawals…
... never thought about it in quite that way. That certainly explains why there are so few older people now alive compared to the historical past.
Ooh, you bad, to be droll in the face of paranoia.
(Very good.)
@BW,
>> All the while the rates of ... cancer ... creep ever northward.
Huh?
>> All of which is easily resolved by controlling insulin resistance.
How nice to think this.
You do know that this whole apocalyptic take is bad for he…
@Mark
>> When I dig up the can [20y later] to redeem the contents ... the $100 bar of gold will most likely buy me the same suit and loaf of bread it would have when I buried it.
Well, it looks like it depends on the period, as one would su…
>> 1979: Fidelity Investments drops the sales charges on many of its largest mutual funds, including Fidelity Fund, Magellan, and Puritan -- giving a huge boost to the direct purchase of no-load funds by retail investors.
Zweig cites "Fidelit…
The Times ran a piece partly walking back their assertion, and an ex-colleague of mine (Dan Kennedy) wrote a piece about that, and of course the "president" claimed as much all along, but then the NYT and WaPo have both reported later that actually …
>> [@msf] Buffett's [mix] implicitly suggests 2.5 years of "near cash". I'd be inclined to go a bit higher and/or use bonds as a second tier resource between cash and equity investments.
Yeah, this to me is key to withstanding (= usually ign…
@bartab,
MC of course is M*'s designation for FLPSX, also its benchmark, and has been as long as I am aware, I think (did not check).
By market cap I meant (the usual definition) the average size of the companies owned in the portfolio. It is an…
this, about reading comprehension (and laziness), is funny and damning
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/robert-mueller-remarks-impeachment-obstruction-key-quotes-transcript-democrats.html
Doesn’t a person’s annual statement from Social Security tell you exactly what to expect based on your actual earning history?
yes, in my experience, having done this just a couple of years ago
Of course let us all bear in mind that Memorial Day is not Veterans Day; it is for honoring those killed in defense of country. Or it is now --- it began as a Civil War death commemoration, Decoration Day (flowers on graves, hence occurring in sprin…
