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Yahoo Finance articles have become a joke, yeah. 24/7 Wall Street is one such example whose articles I presume are bot-written. IMO it's pretty easy to find the bot-written finanical articles since they're often talking just technicals, trends, …
@David - your algo bet is probably correct. Some algo or hedge fund AI is looking for hot stock or fund tips and scours the net for such articles to throw into its data pool to analyse. :)
The liquidity discussion should be required reading for every newbie stock and fund investor -- and refresher reading for us all as we review our periodically portfolios. Liquidity is like water ... when it dries up, one cannot easily move their …
Thinking of adding the new Vanguard Core International fund to my taxable acct to gain managed largecap blend exposure overseas. (It's managed by Wellington)
Global Wellington is interesting too, but I don't want bonds these days.
Day trading is NOWHERE as productive (or fun) as it was 10 years ago or longer. Speaking as someone who paid for parts of his PhD via daytrading futures (who has both earned and lost 10s of thousands in a single day), I suggest he first learn about…
The one nice thing will be to swap my Amex Platinum for a Schwab Amex Platinum, and thus literally be able to 'cash in' my points for deposit into my account. And get a discount on the Amex annual fee based on the size of my account, too.
I'm hop…
Not sure myself. I do like/use their ThinkDesktop active trading/charting package, which is a standalone app and not something run in a browser, which I like and hope they keep it. So we'll see how it all turns out....
@rforno. Thanks for your po…
Nope.
Anyone here or whom you know made any profits of consequence over whatever time frame from any Research Affiliates managed funds?
Thank you.
Catch
Not sure if we're only supposed to mention OEF/CEFs in this thread or not, but I added CSCO to multiple accounts (both my long-long-term account and my 'personal' account) and the REIT OPI to my personal account.
It's not just trade wars. The entire United States is completely off the rails.
+1
I still harbor suspicion that Tweety Amin, showman that he is, will do something -- even cave and claim 'victory' -- on the trade war sometime in 2020 just to make a…
Nah, hank, I'm the same way. I'll tune into Bloomie if I need an evening news fix or to track any Asian open drama. I haven't actually watched NBR since MPT changed the time/channel on me and made it less convenient to segueway after PBS Newshour…
I'd use the Vanguard MM if I could. Frankly many TDA customers were upset they didn't offer any 'free' alternatives to their cash sweep account ... I guess w/the recent moves by Schwab to lower fees and such they decided they needed to do somethin…
I emailed Parnassus on Friday to ask where their estimates were since they pay early in late November. I never got a response but am glad to see they are posted today!
Record 11/20/2019 Ex/Pay: 11/21/2019
M* really started going downhill when they began managing money and had to revise some of their newsletters for SEC compliance, so much of the 'opinions' and 'recommendations' got nixed in favor of more generic 'analysis'. It only got worse from …
"They know best." And they don't care how long it takes to fix things.
They're taking features from Premium and making them part of more expensive institutional packages, IIRC. And the site redesign is catering toward (allegedly) a younger crow…
I was a paid M* user for years but quit 2 years ago given the neverending site woes, bad data, redesign, etc.
I've found much of the data points I need for stock or fund analysis are on SeekingAlpha, for free, and in a much more usable format. A…
Agree w/the above --- imho the 10 year chart is meaningless. I routinely look at 15, 20, and max timeframes now. For me a decent rule of thumb would be how much they lost in '08 .... if they didn't do too badly (by comparison to say the SPX) and…
Speaking as a former futures trader I agree w/this article's questions .... once is a coincidence, repeated examples reek of market manipulation.
But then again it's OK if you're in the family or a close associate (Wilbur)....
The Sink station in DC (ABS's WJLA) also superimposes a CGI American flag on their chyron regardless of the story. It's either in full color or just hinted at behind the channel bug ... very reminiscent of the cable networks doing the same thing in…
Yeah but percentages aren't as eye-dropping and fear-inducing as 'OMG DOWN DOWN 600 POINTS THIS MORNING!' ... which leads to 'STAY TUNED: HOW TO INVEST DURING VOLATILITY' segments .... after all, finp0rn media's first loyalty is to their advertiser…
Ignore the swings if you're a longterm investor. Volatility is a natural part of the markets and is not necessarily something to be feared. Going nuts at every wiggle, even a short-term violent one, is a recipe for disaster. If anything, embrace…
"It's a big, beautiful market. So powerful, the strongest in American history -- or the entire solar system! No thanks to the clueless Fed or companies not spending money, though ... it's all thanks to your favorite clueless Tweeter, me!" /sarc…
Josh is awesome - followed him and Barry for years. IMO their firm is doing things right and if I ever needed to pick up RIAs to manage money I'd probably go with them.
This statement says a great deal, in a positive way:
" ...My 401(k) is invest…
The 'Patriot' Act was full of fun surprises for average law-abiding citizens and firms embrace clauses from it for all sorts of legitimate and sometimes annoying/controversial reasons.....I said so at the time, but nobody cared b/c it was passed wit…
Amen, Mark!!
Interesting how fund firms can predict these 3-mo's ahead of time but we can't get general fund reports that are less than 3-mo's stale and sometimes more.
This WH doesn't use ParmReg, they use processed Kraft Singles and think it high cuisine.
Without Parmigiano Reggiano, I can see White House dinners with green shakers of Kraft on the tables.
Also...it's a tax on Irish whiskey as well.
The WSJ had an article yesterday about how auto loans are now being stretched to 7 years .. thus suggesting folks are either having trouble paying for vehicles and/or are buying more vehicle than they can comfortably afford. Either way, not a goo…
