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Not sure how much you are expecting to earn from your bond funds. This year I've finally decided to throw in the towel. I never invested in bond funds that much outright. I trusted few managers to do it for now. I diversified, I did all that crap, a…
IMO, market moved up too far. too fast I don't really care. It seems like dot com days. You can fart in a bottle, hold it up and say "cloud" and your stock goes up. Meanwhile, I read this.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-06-05/nfp-jobs-data-man…
It feels like we are in Dot Com era for sure. Unfortunately after the bust, "value" = "financial" ruled. Unfortunately "value" is not "financial" anymore. Whoever knows what sector is "value" today, please do tell.
recently discovered - barchart.com. For no other reason than StockCharts is annoying because it only selectively covers what securities to have data for.
I'm just pissed my conservative income portfolio in my IRA is doing worse than S&P 500. I guess I don't know what it means to be conservative. It would seem I should have been in LG funds
I think this was supposed to be joke. "10 bank stocks". during editing someone decided "best" was missing and added it. Banks not going to make any money with rock bottom interest rates. Since I'm not a financial ANALyst I cannot question how and wh…
while paper trading is good for confidence, unless you put actual money you will not learn. Just start with 1 SPY put OTM.
You need your own strategy / scale / objective. One thing I can tell you is do not do 2X, 3X, 5X of your trade. what I mean …
So I had learned 15 years back. Converted $50K to $75K in 2 months and then turned $75K to $40K in about 8 days. Closed my account and ran. It was a mistake.
Since my daughter earned a scholarship to university, thought I would earn some income, so…
So I'm selling deep out of the money puts. I also sold some put spreads first. However I realized that since the put I'm selling is already so far out of the money, to take a percent of that and go further out to buy insurance is not really giving m…
Just reporting, I've sold my RPHYX and RSIVX in my IRA. I will be doing options trading for generating income. After approximately a month of doing so in my taxable account, I feel quite comfortable I can exceed the returns either / both funds can p…
Either you have or have not... It's as simple as that... Clearly, if you don't know, then you have not.
I have done all the research on TRP I need to do. What is clear, is you don't really care. Which is fine. Worse though is all you seem to want to…
>> stop using / perverting them
Right, that makes anyone want to listen to you.
Thank you for your morally and intellectually superior stance. You proved my point now beyond any doubt.
Okay...
Everyone get together, whenever, and tell me when is a good time to buy WHOSX. I guarantee it F up the universe after I buy. I have superpowers of the wrong kind.
Robert Kessler - gotta hand it to him. My hope is when I retire it will be …
@Jan, @Vintage - do me a favor. Define a liberal and define a Conservative. Curious about how you see them.
You are missing the point. This is BS media as created. Don't label people because you don't agree with their point of view. When people do t…
@Crash. You know what you might have done right thing. I've successfully transitioned to having a mercenary attitude toward funds. This argument about a funds "potential" is BS. People have to make decisions in the real world at a given point of tim…
It does seem like logical argument right? Smaller businesses would have less cash on hand to ride it through and forced to close shop. Some may never be able to reboot, or at least not for a while or in the same shape or form. Meanwhile after things…
They are no better or worse than any other fund company. I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly. Of the big firms which have no load funds, you got Vanguard, Fidelity, TRP, TIAA, maybe a few more I'm missing. I have accounts because I have a …
GRSPX - but it is sucking wind. The problem is not "small" as much as it is "value". I got rid of ICMBX few months back. GRSPX, I booked some tax losses on, but still hold it. I invested the proceeds in MNWAX.
@FD1000 thanks! good thing to keep in mind. I think we can do what it takes, i.e. no entertainment, vacations, etc. if that's what needs to be done in retirement. $50K + SS (assuming it is there) sounds reasonable unless inflation does not simply ki…
@carew388. I'm invested in RPGAX (for my MIL) and GAOAX as well. Not in SGENX but in FEBAX. I'm sticking with all of the above. MDLOX is available in my 401k. I used to be in it but unless I'm mistaken, the manager left and for me its almost automat…
@bee Sorry if I'm being dense. My wife has an HSA through her employer. I understand contributions are tax deferred and I also understand it converts to IRA after you retire, or if you lose your job. What I didn't know however is you can invest it r…
@rforno - Yeah. I can now proudly said it's called the Vertical Put Credit Spread. I feel so smart :-)
Seriously though, after what happened to bond, bond-like, "income" funds in the last couple of months I would rather take my own risk with money …