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Good question. These things run in cycles. I’m in a similar situation. Short / intermediate term stuff. Down in ‘22 and up a bit this year. Treading water for 18 months now. I’m prepared to wait it out. But your point is valid. Agree that f…
What's your point?
I’ve watched the fund several years (and owned it in better days) and suspect it will rebound if and when the markets nose-dive. The fund invests in income producing stocks and tries to play defense (hedge) in the options market…
Understand. It’s been raised before. Just wanted to share my thoughts (which you apparently chose not to ignore).
Edit - I’m wondering how someone would follow a protracted discussion involving multiple contributors if they had previously selecte…
Motherlovers!
Years ago someone in law enforcement told me that when they followed through on identity theft complaints, they found 80-90% of this crap was originating in Russia. (No idea if still true.)
Similar story to @Crash / Warnings started popping up a year ago on my ipad that “Your device is infected by a virus.” Ignored them at first. After a few weeks I could see signs they had ripped into my DejaOffice files on the device and had been tr…
@David_Snowball - Is there a thought of providing an ignore feature in this forum so one could ignore specific posters or threads to allow easy navigation? Many investment forums have this feature.
”Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen …
Loving both Firefox & Brave which are knocking down attempts by Google & Facebook to track me. Dumb question … But how do these ”good guys” make money? I’ll assume there must be a business model - or are they supported fully by donation?
The PBS segment from Friday (I linked earlier in the thread) focused on the advent of pharmaceutical middlemen / brokers - a fairly recent development. These are companies that serve as a “broker” and set the prices drug wholesalers or insurance …
@Old_Joe & @Crash -
With the newer “Firefox Focus” I’ve found that it wipes clean any saved websites on my search engines. That’s the reason I wasn’t using it as the default browser. However, with the standard / more traditional “Firefox”…
Thanks for writing a book on the topic @Old_Joe. Very helpful. With DuckGo set as default on both the search engine and browser, do you gain anything by logging in to especially sensitive sites with FireFox? If that’s purely an illusion, it certain…
@hank. what's different about DuckGo?
DuckGo has been recommended in the past by several, notably @Old_Joe, as a safer / more secure alternative to Google / Bing, etc. I suppose they don’t track as freely.
I do not know why my access to M* seeme…
May have been a problem with Google’s pricing Friday. One of my tracking apps uses Yahoo pricing and one uses Google.
Same CEF’s closing price + change on Friday:
Google pricing $3.83 +1.32%
Yahoo pricing $3.79 +.26%
M*, M/W, & Fido…
”The latest charges against Donald Trump show him and his Mar-a-Lago band to be as lame as the Watergate plumbers.”
Headline from The New Yorker July 28 - Article by Susan Glasser
Just a quick ”sobriety check” …
Some YTD numbers for the first 7 months of 2023 along with the annualized rate of increase …
NASDAQ +36.79% YTD (Annualized= +63%)
S&P 500 +19.34% YTD (Annualized = +33.15%)
DOW +6.98…
I think the prosecutor has a “mole” inside the “company” giving them these details. Somebody ratted to stay out of prison themselves. “If you lie down with fleas dogs …” :)
I see this going to the SC in some fashion eventually (unless he drops o…
The revised indictment said that in late June of last year, shortly after the government demanded the surveillance footage as part of its inquiry, Mr. Trump called Mr. De Oliveira and they spoke for 24 minutes. Two days later, the indictment said, …
I may have found the issue with all those trackers. I’ve been deleting “browsing history, saved sites, cookies” religiously (several times daily) on the Google search engine I use for non-financial sites. However, I just noticed the time-period was…
To the extent possible I have absolutely no interaction with Google. Many years ago it was very obvious to me that Google was trying to pry into every aspect of my life that they could. No great secrets there, but also no damned business of Google o…
“2,887 trackers blocked so far” - Note from Firefox today.
Yikes. Only been using Firefox for 8-10 weeks. And reserve it only for financial sites where I actually transact business. Maybe 50 logins to date. Sounds like every time I log in to…
”How do I get to be an influencer?”
@BenWP - Thanks for the question. Some tips to guide you on your journey into Lunaland.
- Attend local meetings and shout your petty grievances above everyone else.
- Remind them you have “lots of friends…
Meet “rock star” Republican Anna Paulina Luna, 34, the first influencer turned Congresswoman who wants to find UFOs
https://www.the-sun.com/news/8697047/anna-paulina-luna-from-influencer-to-congresswoman/
I never thought it made much difference. Your portfolio rises. It falls. Money is money no matter the source. There might be tax considerations for some, making money obtained from one source cheaper for them than another … And I totally agree wi…
If there are in fact any aliens from another planet they would have to be very smart to be able to get to Earth, and very stupid to want to have anything to do with us.
+1
They’d perform a U-turn and high-tail it back to wherever they came from. …
VIX (the original one) continues to slumber at below 13.50
Must say Powell’s droning on is having same effect on me. One ETF that tries to hedge market risk based on changes in the VIX, TAIL, is off about 46% since inception in 2017. A record e…
Seriously, with all of the other problems and issues we have in this country that need solutions and could be discussed in congress why are they wasting any time at all on this topic? Besides the fact that the current majority party is a bunch of wh…
”So, the thing to remember with ETFs is - in crisis, don't act, but just go watch a movie instead.”
Oppenheimer sounds good. Everything so far makes good sense. Thanks everyone.
Meanwhile hussy (hussman). Continues to make very rational sense and notates overvaluation and very risky markets but continues to suffer drawdowns....some day, some day....he might actually make his shareholders money ....
Yes, we should all hope t…
Latest wrinkle from this Mellon fella (Former U.S. assistant deputy of something …)
Apparently Mr. Mellon is concerned that these aliens are “violating U.S. airspace.” https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/ufo-hearing-congress-christopher-mel…
”my desired target is .60 or better on active management fees for mutual funds and with no 12(b)-1 fees thrown in.”
Very reasonable outlook. Similar goal here for the plain vanilla variety. However, if one wishes to visit Charlie’s Chocolate Facto…
@yogibearbull said, ”Things were different in 1970s.” - Right with ya Yogi.
Our workplace plan (1970s) had but 1 option if you wanted to invest in equities, It was through Templeton funds. The A shares’ normal front load was 7%. But, as a group, …
Why not keep the newsletter and just fade the recommendations? IE, do the opposite of what they're advising? :)
That’s too funny. I’d rather have back the 50% of the original 2-year subscription fee they’ve promised to send. You can buy a deck o…
Gosh. I finally agree with FD on something. Few “experts” predicted current bull market in advance.
Today I cancelled a subscription to a newsletter that’s been so upside down the past year it ain’t funny. Told folks to sell / reduce exposure t…
I’m wondering if anything’s been written about the effects (if any) private ownership of a fund provider has on the achievement of its offerings over long periods? Maybe fruit for some written piece in the future? Two I’ve had recent experience w…
"These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." Sounds a lot like something out of the ancient history of Lord of the Rings.
Damn - I hope they hold televised hearings on this looniness.
Prime time would be best. The regular late …
Not a judgment call. But I’ve never shared passwords or been approached to do so by anyone I know.
With publishers, especially, I think it’s important to support them by paying a reasonable price for subscriptions. Allows them to pay top talent li…
