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Josh Brown nails it perfectly in his comments this morning in response to the JPM announcement.
http://thereformedbroker.com/2018/08/21/a-portfolio-is-not-a-plan-2/
I'm all for long-term focus on things but we can reduce costs too much. To wit: I hate getting annual reports in PDF format -- I much prefer the old hard copy, even if it went from slick paper to (cheaper) flimsy newsprint.
Anything meant to shift…
Those are just his automtic schtick talking points and can be ignored. If he does something for business, it must 'boost business' and 'create jobs' -- any other descriptor would be lost on him. This won't do anything for job creation, just like …
I block pop-ups so maybe there was a reminder on the sell order page. But it was indicated on the page when I bought it -- both the TD and TRP fees -- so I definitely was informed.
@rforne: Did you get advised of penalty before executing trade …
Funny that TRP had a 90 day holding period with a 2% 'early trade' penalty and TDA has a 180-day holding period for a $50 'early sale' penalty.
I just dumped a TRP at Day 90 to avoid the 2% (which would've been a few hundred bucks) but still got h…
I stand corrected! Looks like my adblocker was deleting/hiding the COMPARE button on the performance page. Please disregard my criticism about this particular item and apologies for the confusion!!!
Are you saying that you have to work harder to…
You used to go to Performance and then could extend the performance data back, say 10-15 years. Then there was a COMPARE button you could click to compare all that data with whatever you wanted .... it was more than just a comparison of price or r…
I'm looking at RYT for my long-long term portfolio, actually. For that conservative account I like the equal-weighted feature of that fund!
Very enlightening comparisons among these funds. While it does not have the long-term record of the cubes, …
I like that Spencer trades in/out of TSLA the way he does. He's done okay with it thus far, though I didn't like that it was 12% of the portfolio at one point -- when I began to trim my PRGTX holding.
PRGTX is a great fund and I like it b/c it d…
Sigh. No, I've not found that, either. At least not in any of the ways/areas we used to be able to do it.
As far as I can tell there has never been a way to compare stocks on the NEW site (which is horrible in my opinion). Am I missing somethin…
You can read the many comments at the m* forums over recent years, but their 'new' site is nowhere as user friendly and functional as it used to be. And I'm glad you got good customer service -- I sent two polite notes in response to messages I g…
Exactly. Some folks just get in their own way, which can generate a horrific signal-to-noise ratio in terms of content being noticed when THEY post it. I sincerely appreciated some of the stuff provided in the daily linkfest before switching to …
+1. The frequency and severity of weird weather events in recent years ranging from storms to seasons that last barely a week and more are a clear sign that Mother Nature is rather upset at what we're doing to her. Sadly, nobody in charge is lis…
Every time I hear Grantham I keep thinking about those broken clocks that are only correct twice a day. He may be intelligent and makes some excellent macro points in his various missives over the years but apparently he's unable to adapt to the …
That's right, be sure to credit Ted for anything he might have ever posted on this site. Because if you don't, he'll call you out for it as he did here. Some people are just so insecure & starved for attention these days it seems......
Skeet, I'm the same way -- you said it perfectly!! (Though I do some research and place orders on the weekends when things are quiet, every now and then.)
But, investing is something that I enjoy and during my working years we opened our business…
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that if a person is not disciplined enough to 'stick to their plan' or withstand the normal ups/downs of the markets, then absolutely if they check their portfolios frequently and see they're down 1, 2, 3 percent, t…
My reason for dumping PRBLX years ago was because WFC clearly had major issues with the 'G'(overnance) in the Parnassus ESG investing framework, yet the fund kept the #1 holding for years as the various scandals piled up. Although I could care le…
What pains me is when people consider 'Facebook' to be the same as the internet .. just as how folks thought AOL was the internet back during Dot Com. Nope, just giant walled gardens, they are, purposely designed to be sticky and keep you inside…
... and then there's PRWCX which edges PRCOX out a tad over the longer term and lost less during the '08 GFC. Still both are solid funds! (I own PRWCX)
I wouldn't touch FailBook as a user[1] or investor ... not even as a trade, for that matter. Not to mention, Wall Street groupthink favors it as a herd trade target, which doesn't appeal to me.
At the moment, the company has serious issues (priva…
I threw up part of my lunch when I saw that.
Taxpayer-funded bailouts to reimburse the collateral damage to his base brought on by his trade idiocy and ignorance is not the answer. But then again, this guy is the master of spending other people's…
At the risk of defending the hypocritical he who must not be named, I don't see that as a bad thing. I and others do that elsewhere -- post the link and the lead paragraph or two to give folks the gist of the article, which is totally fine and fai…
Being a M* forum regular we've had our fair share of political tripe in recent months but ... and I hate to jinx things, the furor seemed to have died down significantly in recent days. Perhaps the same will happen here. (I only had to ignore 2…
I had a Saturn sedan in the mid-90s, then went to the Explorer, Acura MDX ('05 great model, kept it for 9 years), and then a BMW x3 SUV which I despised due to an unremovable dead pedal footrest on the left side that jammed my foot - I actually had …
When encountering resistance, the modern bully whines about being bullied. Happens here, happens in politics, happens in a lot of venues these days. Clearly they're searching for their own victimization b/c their skins run awfully thin.
Please im…
I bought big ticket work-related items last Dec to get in ahead of the tax law changes regarding unreimbursable biz expenses.
I don't have any BTIs that I need to get at the moment. *fingers crossed* Hopefully I won't either. :)
LA Times reporter Chris Megerian said this morning: "Dan Coats says he starts his mornings by asking his staff to 'tell me the bad things that happened since I fell asleep.'"
Ahhh, the good old days when you could get a good night's sleep....
