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My investments are nearly entirely in equities and equity funds, correct.
And yes, I do have faith in that 403(b) fund and the company behind it.
@rforno: If I'm reading you right, your $$$ went into stocks only. Secondly you took me by surprise …
If I make a surprising 25-50% on a stock in 2-3 months, especially if it was not expected given my own view of the markets and the underlying item(s) in question, I consider that worthy of locking in the gains. And no, this is all in taxable. My…
Across all accounts I'm about 75% in the market, nearly all in equities & equity funds. The remainder is mostly cash I've been trying to put to work for a while (few opportunities) or cash raised by stuff I bought in Feb that's run up to insa…
My 2 cents: regardless of political stripe, can we at least be polite and agree to confine partisan stuff into specific threads instead of littering ... or polluting ... the master index with new top-level posts about the latest niggling partisan …
No kidding.
I've toyed with throwing some speculative $$ into the CLIX ETF, but it doesn't hold many mall operators, just retail companies who have presences in malls..
The ProShares Long Online/Short Stores Index combines a 100% long position i…
I like that PRBLX is concentrated and not an index-hugger. Nor does it hold many of the 'usual' big names found in most funds - at least in any large amount. Looking at 2008, it only lost 22% compared to 36%+ on the S&P, and in my view has pe…
You’ve identified the storyline here. What remains is how will the story end? With a bang or a whimper? And when? Those who’ve seen the last 15 minutes of this movie aren’t letting on - if they know. It’s tempting to forecast a 50% drubbing of th…
WABAC, I've always liked BRLIX as a cheap eq-wt proxy for the Dow and have held it off and on over the years. Also held GLFOX at times; I need to revisit that one and see how it's currently positioned.
PRWCX, FSDAX, and soon PRBLX in very large slugs as core positions.
Several AF's (as 1/3 of another account) as core positions
Lots of quality dividend stocks (nearly all QDI) that reinvest and accumulate.
A few speculative trades in one of my taxab…
I find myself agreeing with Jim Cramer here ... which happens, from time to time.
Remember the irrational exhuberance going into the Dot Com Crash (Pets.Com!), the Housing Bubble (5 houses on NINJA loans!), and now this.
Remember when you start s…
In his "liddle" mind, the election will be 'unfair' if he looses. Big or close result, it doesn't matter, if he loses he'll claim it's rigged, unfair, and some deep-state conspiracy and try to litigate his way into stayin in office and outside of a…
I don't mean to shout but ...
THIS IS NOT AMERICA.
Trump Will Judge Election Fairness After Vote, White House Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/trump-will-judge-election-fairness-after-vote-white-house-says?sref=368neHRO
Sad to say I agree and have said so for years. From things like crumbling infrastructure, the inability to hold smooth elections, the convoluted nature of health care, lack of public health care, poor public education conditions, hunger, polarized…
I just took a chance and called Charles Schwab. Got thru in 10 secs and had a great chat w/account rep who answered my questions. I think I may make a fresh start & open new account there to avoid the integration nonsense with .@TDAmeritrade as…
black is the new (old) orange?
Hopefully at 1201PM on Jan 20 2021, orange will be the new orange as he gets a wardrobe change and chauferred in a big beautiful car up to the SDNY.
I use Fidelity for several decades and they are very reliable and fast on connectivity ! It should able to meet all your needs.
Almost! They don't seem to offer futures. :/
I heard from friends in NYC that 'they' (some legislators either from NYC or in Albany, I'm not sure) were floating the idea of implementing some form of exit tax and/or expat surcharge for folks moving out of the area, similar to what you pay when…
Now he says he'll sign USPS funding if the Dems make concessions in the Covid negotiations.
In normal times, that would be termed political dealmaking and posturing. These days, given the situation, it sounds like extortion --- and totally par fo…
Yup. It's all about him and avoiding a) embarrassment at 'losing', b) seeing his tax records released, and c) prison.
Tweety Amin is far more interested in suppressing votes than suppressing the virus ...
Supposedly Tweety Amin semi-walked back his USPS remarks yesterday, but I doubt anyone's believing it.
He'll do anything to remain in office b/c the minute he leaves, he's facing criminal (and civil) charges and likely jail time. He clearly is in…
Order placed to close out my VDIGX position as part of portfolio simplification. 14% gain since Feb.
Going into the rest of the year I expect to re-open and significantly fund a PRBLX holding as a core position in the OEF part of my portfolio.
Yeah his stuff was interesting --- but I hated how you had to log in to pull down the weekly report ... in 2016 (or 18, whenever it was) he should have been able to send it to subscribers via email. Forcing readers to login was inconvenient and I …
Out of ETFs? I don't think so. But I have been caught in low-liquidity stocks that took hours, and in some cases, days, to fill a simple order to dump just 1 or 2000 shares ... sometimes even that could move the needle on very thinly-traded symbol…
I'm not seeing much volume on these ETFs. Meaning, as much as I'd consider adding TCHP to my portfolio, I wouldn't touch it anytime soon due to liquidity concerns .... not that I'd be trading it, but when I want to get out of a position, I want t…
I do rather worry about the RobinHood crowd and the prospect that they're pushing things higher, in part by triggering the algos. The observation that the S&P 495 is underwater by 5% year-to-date while the S&P 5 is up dramatically, does fee…
Actually that was fairly easy to follow after the second reading. :) But yes, I agree there's far too much prose involved for the average joe investor to follow easily.
BTW TRP seems to be very active these days. Rolling out semitransparent E…
@rforno She will mop the floor with him.
Crash, I totally agree. Frankly I wonder if this means Pence's status on the ticket could be in danger now? Watching her cross-examination of witnesses in hearings was wonderful and her prosecutorial chop…
Trevor Noah (host of 'The Daily Show') tweeted out “EXCLUSIVE: White House officials are exploring legal options to ensure Mike Pence can participate in the VP debate with Kamala Harris, a woman.”
Cutting the payroll tax doesn't help anyone who's out of work. But it gives Tweety Amin a talking point about how he "cut taxes" going into the elections.
The payroll tax cut is also a backdoor way of attacking Social Security and Medicare, I thi…
