Bummbull wrote:
Swaglord_the_real_one wrote:
This market is dumb.
I missed all the gains and was in straight cash in Feb. bought a little at 2550 and sold at 2770, FML.
Asset Allocation is the way to go. You're guaranteed to buy low and sell high with asset allocation.
In other words, sell the stocks and funds that have done well and buy those that have done poorly.
Brilliant
“Perhaps one day people will realize that the trillions in interventions by the Fed are not a sign of strength, but rather that the appearance of control is an illusion & that the amount of interventions are reflective of a structurally broken system fearing utter collapse.
And if this is so, then all the excess brought about by these interventions may ultimately reveal itself to be the biggest selling opportunity in decades.
Time will tell.“
Sven Henrich
@NorthmanTrader
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Igy/K5/Unkle - please don't post any more quotes of others. We are seeking guidance from YOU.
Which of your investment strategies have been brilliant of late?
We knew your CDs investments have been the worst of any.
We know that your advice to stay out of equities was the biggest mistake ever.
We know that your advice to get out of equities in March was the second biggest mistake ever.
So, we have 3 horrendous investment offerings that you have made.
Again, I would love to know which of your investing genius ideas have indeed proved brilliant. Please, no quoting others. Just spell out what you advised and how that investment advice fared. Thanks!
Exercise your Pavlovian response Sally. Buy TQQQ at the open, hold for the next two years. ?
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Exercise your Pavlovian response Sally. Buy TQQQ at the open, hold for the next two years. ?
You can't reply to what I requested? Which of your investing strategies have been successful? None? Just name one.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Statistic for the statistic professional:
https://twitter.com/SarahPonczek/status/1298722904704552968
What time frame? This information is useless without a time reference. Any “statistic professional” knows that.
Sally Vix wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Exercise your Pavlovian response Sally. Buy TQQQ at the open, hold for the next two years. ?
You can't reply to what I requested? Which of your investing strategies have been successful? None? Just name one.
John P. Hussman
@hussmanjp
“It's the epitome of sloppy thinking to imagine that refraining from speculation at hypervalued, Fed-induced, yield-seeking extremes at the worst prospective returns in U.S. history is somehow "betting against America."
It's exactly this sort of behavior that always injures it.“
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Sally Vix wrote:
You can't reply to what I requested? Which of your investing strategies have been successful? None? Just name one.
John P. Hussman
@hussmanjp
“It's the epitome of sloppy thinking to imagine that refraining from speculation at hypervalued, Fed-induced, yield-seeking extremes at the worst prospective returns in U.S. history is somehow "betting against America."
It's exactly this sort of behavior that always injures it.“
Are you actually quoting that clown?
Here is his fund. Be warned. It is not a pretty sight. One of the worst funds ever.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSGFX?p=HSGFX&.tsrc=fin-srchSally Vix wrote:
Igy/K5/Unkle - please don't post any more quotes of others. We are seeking guidance from YOU.
Igy gets his investment advice from Twitter. K5/Unkle gets his from QAnon.
And they wonder why they are so often wrong.
What is hilarious is this is what their objective is:
"The investment seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation, with added emphasis on the protection of capital during unfavorable market conditions. "
The fund has lost 9 of 10 years when the market has been going like gangbusters. What the heck is the fund doing so poorly? I am not sure you could do this poorly if you even tried to do this poorly.
Killing your investments in 2020, like I said it would. Make you look rather stupid, Bob.
So sorry. ?
Sally Vix wrote:
What is hilarious is this is what their objective is:
"The investment seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation, with added emphasis on the protection of capital during unfavorable market conditions. "
.
Just read this again ..."...protection of capital during unfavorable market conditions."
They should amend their mission statement to read ... "loss of capital during favorable market conditions."
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Killing your investments in 2020, like I said it would. Make you look rather stupid, Bob.
So sorry. ?
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/hsgfx/performance
The Dow was at 7,000 in 2009. It is now above 28,000. And YOUR best investment?
Buy TQQQ at the open. The Pavlovian response has you salivating for easy money. Go ahead. As Joe Namath says “It’s free.”
Six of eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through August 25, 2020. The top performer is China's Shanghai with a gain of 10.60%. Our own S&P 500 is in second with a gain of 6.57% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 1.52%. Coming in last is London's FTSE 100 with a loss of 19.96%.
The Unkle wrote:
Bummbull wrote:
Asset Allocation is the way to go. You're guaranteed to buy low and sell high with asset allocation.
In other words, sell the stocks and funds that have done well and buy those that have done poorly.
Brilliant
Wow. Didn't think I would need to explain the merits of asset allocation as it's the most important aspect of investing. It guarantees you to sell high, buy low. It protects your asset during downturn by having allocation in bonds. So during downturn, you sell your bonds, and buy equity so you can buy equity at cheaper prices. During good times, you sell some of your equity at higher prices and buy bonds.
So, I've almost doubled my portfolio since beginning of this year. Not from March lows, but actually from February high. About $1 million and my age is mid 30s.
Like I've said in the previously, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. I make sure to have plenty of bond allocation now so I'm fine if market goes up, or goes down as long as market trends up in the next 20-30 years.
seattle prattle wrote:
* environmentally unfriendly. As in the planet.
Amazon doesn't deliver to your door in a day by going cheap on energy
Racket wrote:
seattle prattle wrote:
* environmentally unfriendly. As in the planet.
Amazon doesn't deliver to your door in a day by going cheap on energy
But there are energy savings and environmental impacts that offset that energy expenditure, like less brick and mortar outlets with all the utilities and environmental impacts of a building and furnishings, etc. And if Amazon delivers to a half dozen people in my block in one trip, doesn't that save five trips with a vehicle to outlets to buy those items in person?
Hard to get a full picture of their impacts in total.
Packaging is one that always shows up on my wife's radar, and Costco is particularly bad about that, imo.
Bummbull wrote:
The Unkle wrote:
In other words, sell the stocks and funds that have done well and buy those that have done poorly.
Brilliant
Wow. Didn't think I would need to explain the merits of asset allocation as it's the most important aspect of investing. It guarantees you to sell high, buy low. It protects your asset during downturn by having allocation in bonds. So during downturn, you sell your bonds, and buy equity so you can buy equity at cheaper prices. During good times, you sell some of your equity at higher prices and buy bonds.
So, I've almost doubled my portfolio since beginning of this year. Not from March lows, but actually from February high. About $1 million and my age is mid 30s.
Like I've said in the previously, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. I make sure to have plenty of bond allocation now so I'm fine if market goes up, or goes down as long as market trends up in the next 20-30 years.
Good for you. I am not that smart with timing. And when i've tried it, i usually always end up buying back the shares i sold when they just keep going up.
seattle prattle wrote:
Bummbull wrote:
Wow. Didn't think I would need to explain the merits of asset allocation as it's the most important aspect of investing. It guarantees you to sell high, buy low. It protects your asset during downturn by having allocation in bonds. So during downturn, you sell your bonds, and buy equity so you can buy equity at cheaper prices. During good times, you sell some of your equity at higher prices and buy bonds.
So, I've almost doubled my portfolio since beginning of this year. Not from March lows, but actually from February high. About $1 million and my age is mid 30s.
Like I've said in the previously, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. I make sure to have plenty of bond allocation now so I'm fine if market goes up, or goes down as long as market trends up in the next 20-30 years.
Good for you. I am not that smart with timing. And when i've tried it, i usually always end up buying back the shares i sold when they just keep going up.
I was fortunate this time around for having most of my equity tied to AMZN as I work there. Even after my shares vested, i've kept most of it, and just held onto it. I messed up with timing here too where I sold some AMZN shares at its lows in March thinking that it would go down below $1400 as it did in Dec 2018. Fortunately for me, other stocks went down further and AMZN didn't go down as far so I was able to buy TSLA, RDFN, PRPL, NFLX, and AAPL at lower prices.
Now, I'm balanced though with Bonds as having around $1million is enough for me to protect it instead of just playing offense when I had about half that amount.