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Talking stocks, trading, and investing in general
AAPL and MSFT has pretty much become my two largest single holdings and positions, accounting for 20% of my portfolio. Not sure what to do. I wouldn't buy them today necessarily but think they still have plenty of room to go, and in this current climate they are one of the few businesses that...- stimulacra
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Talking stocks, trading, and investing in general
AAPL and MSFT have now become my two largest individual holdings from what was initially play money several years back. My corporate bond fund is a distant third.- stimulacra
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My 1 year return is 3.8% lol. YTD is -14%. Just got my bonus last Friday and thank God the 401k contribution hasn't gone through yet. On the flipside I did deposit a nice chunk into my daughter's 529 Plan on Friday 13th, womp womp. Should have waited the weekend but whatever. My...- stimulacra
- Post #17,119
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Borrowing against 401k should be a last resort. He would be cashing out at the bottom probably. He should swallow his pride and talk with his ex about some temporary relief. It's in her best interest for him to be professionally viable in his career if she has a long-view approach on things...- stimulacra
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Was wondering the same thing. Just bonused this week.- stimulacra
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Ho hum autumn, the only interesting thing to note is that Microsoft (MSFT) has slowly become my largest single ticker holding. Part of me wants to liquidate and move it all back into index but I think Microsoft's cloud play and enterprise subscription model still has plenty of legs.- stimulacra
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Anyone check the YTD on their bond funds recently? https://nyti.ms/2PmHi8C- stimulacra
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What are the essential cultural markers of Gen X? Are they still relevant in 2019? MTV, divorced parents and latch key childhoods? Being called slackers as young adults? Being passed over or ignored as millennials move up the ranks? What happened to Gen Y? What's after Gen Z? For chuckles I...- stimulacra
- Post #15,761
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For normal investors like us, cash is safe thanks to FDIC… but if you have a $100 million or a billion dollars in cash, where do you keep it? Physically safeguarding it costs money. Which institutions do you trust to deposit it in? You'll eventually run out of places to stash $250k. In those...- stimulacra
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Foreign investors might take advantage of a currency decline between their home currency and what the bonds are denominated in. Investors anticipating deflation might seek haven in negative yield bonds. If yields continue to go down, current bonds will increase in value even if it has a...- stimulacra
- Post #15,740
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In addition to liquidity requirements, the institutions investing in negative yield bonds are doing so because they think it'll be a better investment than cash or equities in the short and medium term.- stimulacra
- Post #15,737
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Archived NYT article from 1982. What's crazy to read is that at the time, it was clear from being a no-brainer. RECORD SET ON 30 YEAR U.S. BONDS https://nyti.ms/30Amagu- stimulacra
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I think it peaked at 15.2% in 1981… so I guess those folks were sitting pretty till 2011.- stimulacra
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From what I've read, bonds were real popular back then. More so than today. Gold really took off after 1971 when the US got rid of the gold standard and became a floating currency. There's a good episode of PBS' Firing Line from 1970 where Harry Browne (Permanent Portfolio) and Eliot Janeway...- stimulacra
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Our PMI payments went away since the house appreciated significantly enough during the re-appraisal. Also I think we were rounding up payments to help pay it down early before to refi. We were five years into a 30-year. (bought in 2005, refi in 2010). It didn't have a noticeable impact on our...- stimulacra
- Post #15,726
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I've done that in the past. Payments didn't change and I lopped off 10 years off my mortgage at the time.- stimulacra
- Post #15,711
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Mulling over maybe 5% or 10% exposure. Trying to figure if it's best done within a taxable account, Roth or traditional IRA. Look's like the OP modified their allocation a bit in a new thread: HEDGEFUNDIE's excellent adventure Part II: The next journey...- stimulacra
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Anyone follow this Risk Parity 3x Leverage ETF strategy thread on Bogleheads? HEDGEFUNDIE's excellent adventure [risk parity strategy using 3x leveraged ETFs] https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=272007 I don't pretend to understand all of the backtesting data and discussions...- stimulacra
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For IRA and such, I redirect new inflows to whatever is underperforming. For 401k I have my targets set and it just rebalances twice a year.- stimulacra
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Could probably lose or downgrade a car if you wanted to.- stimulacra
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