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BUT the FUTURE looks Bright" tb
"these wide ranges don’t usually scream trouble for stocks. When that happens, the S&P has ended the next day down 58% of the time for an average loss of 0.4%. About two-thirds of the time the index rises in the…
Amscot's main business, I'll give you cash today, if you payback *80% (guess) interest when you get your paycheck on FRiday, If you don't pay on Fri. your new rate will be 800%...thats not marshmellows but at least you get your Instant Gratificatio…
That "new class of residents" aren't there because they want to be - they are there by circumstances of the game in my opinion. Quote Mikem
Sorry, but I never met a person who WANTED to get out of his "circumstances", that couldn't do it, and cir…
They are nuts or stupid or both....Wellington holds 35% bonds and a limited # of stocks for such big $ holdings...How could they outperform S&P in 2014?
Every wonder why guys like me and (ibartman) question most financial reporting, the readers …
Count me as a Drop out
Soon we might have a fully employed work force......NEVER
Inflation down to TWO categories....Food and Healthcare, used to be three with Energy(now Deflation of energy) should help with your food & Healthcare insurance pre…
FUN/PROFITABLE stock story: anyone heard of Nathan's Hot Dogs, French Fries and mustard?
Winner #2: Long idea on NATH (Nathan's Famous) by GFP Investments, published March 8, 2013. Return to date: +113%
money story: other Day I stopped at my favorite Gas station, gave the clerk$40.00 for Gas fillup the tank only took $32 and change.....She had to give me $7 and change back, that's 20% (better than most of my investments) more money for me to spend …
"Looking for love in all the wrong places" used to be an investment song.....I think,
I try not to worry much about interest rates, but I pay my bond managers to do so,
So far, there worth what I pay them....
OK, hate to do this...... but for Vanguard pump & you asked
MY main focus 10 yr. figures right thru the 2008 disaster;
VGHCX +13.19 yr. avg
VHCOX +10.65 "
VPCCX +10.56 "
YACKX +10.41 (counted as Vanguard..not.... but my #2holding
Balanced:
V…
The only real Diversification I do is hold a certain % of my portfolio in Bonds, they serve a purpose, I consider them my CASH, returning 3+% in 2014, , and I won't give them up, though they do reduce my total returns (11% in 2014), I do change %'…
"....... 19.9% of U.S. equity fund managers bested their benchmarks, according to Morningstar -- but those who did managed an advantage of 1.8 percentage points, on average"
those are my "people" make sure their yours....+1.8% is a lot of money for …
Don't know about inflows.... but I hold four of Vanguards best performing funds,2 of best ETFs, BEST Balanced funds, Best H/Y fund..... none of which are Index funds
...together they make up my KEYS
"brilliance to call bottoms precisely"
Who said ANYTHING about Bottoms?, CHEAP has nothing to do with a bottom, that might be your mistake (misunderstanding Principles)
Forget the knives stuff please....
BUY CHEAP,SELL HIGH......The ONLY lesson you have to implement to be successful in the buying and selling of securities....can it be any more simple, cowboy?
COAL kept me alive as a kid in Indiana, the only source of heat our home had (Dirt and all),
MY biggest concern is so called power of the pen where a do-gooder has an audience in some media source, and a certain % of the under informed believe in th…
I got through most of it, the article that is, and I think EVERYONE has their own AXE to Grind, also called self-interest, Me I wish Vanguard would put pressure on GM (I'm sure their funds hold lots of GM) to make better Cars, or on JNJ to make chea…
"Let’s say you invested the same amount of money (earning the same 10% annually) in an exchange-traded stock fund for 30 years. You’d be paying 0.10 % annually to hold the fund."
One serious error in this statement, which invalidates his whole logi…
Wallmart has Allstar tennis shoes for $20 in size 13, MY shoe store....
But I have 100's of dress shoes, Wing tips and everything I would give you....no longer needed....
Hank, its not I don't consider Commodites a worthwhile topic of discussion, but I think a post every hour about one Commodity (a necessity, not pork bellies) and a new off- the- Wall price level $33?, somewhat redundant..and a time waster,(yet, here…
I don't go "overseas" wherever that is? so no problems
But in the U.S. I used a CC issued by my Commercial Bank, (Wells Fargo), which is also tied to my checking/savings account, They have never declined any charges (and better never) and of course …
Don't get the attention/concern for oil pricing? IT is Temporary !, you should be happy and all I see is over concern. WE can not live without oil, the price will be up AGAIN way too soon, enjoy what you have for now, low Gasoline prices among many …
Optimism is my middle name, I never went into a business or purchased an Investment that I DIDN'T think I was going to make Money........Dido for 2015, thank you
Ps. See my post on Oil and forget about its CURRENT pricing, enjoy the gas prices.....…
