http://www.etf.com/SLYV Small value Price/Earnings Ratio 131.58 http://www.etf.com/VTI Total market PE 27. Whats the math on this, how do I make more money long term when the PE is high Value stocks are supposed to be cheap companies that are out of favor, with dim prospects. Then they do better th...

I recently moved a decent chunk of my cash into CIT Bank. Their Money Market account is paying 1.75%.

http://www.bankoncit.com

Kriegsspiel wrote:Up! Down! Up! Down!

I assume the Flash Boys have been making a killing lately.

The good ones are making a killing. The bad ones are getting killed.

My version of the GB is down 0.40% for Q1 2018. My buddy's portfolio is down 1.76%, so at least I'm beating him out. Lol!

This is one of my favorite calculators on your site, Tyler. It really puts withdrawals into perspective. I'm not anywhere close to retirement, but I feel much better equipped than before I found this forum and your site.

Good luck to you, Budd, and good luck to us all!

buddtholomew wrote:Does anyone hold LTT’s or am I the idiot left holding the bag?

Lol! I still have some in my retirement account. I sold off all of the rest.

Also, it's important to keep an eye on the big picture and look at the options from few different perspectives. For example, your portfolio looks a lot more appealing in the Drawdowns calculator. Different people are motivated by different things, so it's hard to make generalizations. The best I ca...

For anyone interested in playing with the numbers for themselves, the tool is now live. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say your continued hard work is greatly appreciated, Tyler! It's interesting to compare the more volatile portfolios with either PP, GB, or my own concoction. There is a kind...

boglerdude wrote:where do brokers get the $ used for margin loans?

I'd imagine it's created and lent the same way a bank might do, but I really have no idea.

I love my cash, I love my cash, I love my cash...

Seriously, though... I do.

I use small and mid caps in my portfolio instead of the broad market. Over time they tend to outperform, but are more volatile.

Play with asset allocations on Tyler's site: https://portfoliocharts.com

Oh, I believe it applies in other aspects of life, just not investing! Seasonality, trends, etc have predictive value (e.g.forecasts) but the relationship of future returns to historical returns is less substantive to me. So, again, I ask... why would it matter if your 70/30 portfolio outperformed ...

I didn’t invest in the portfolio from 1998-2008 so it is not relevant to me. How is past data not relevant? :o Backtesting has no predictive value. It’s fun though, I actually do data mining and predictive analytics for a living. Then why would it matter if your 70/30 portfolio outperformed YTD?

buddtholomew wrote:I didn’t invest in the portfolio from 1998-2008 so it is not relevant to me.

How is past data not relevant?

You might as well hold 100% stocks if you never look, it has the highest expected return. Put everything in AAPL. It's the largest market cap stock out there but has crushed the overall market for years. Seriously, though, the PP is about as stable an allocation as one could ever hope for. Day to d...

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eufo wrote:Holy gay. Yes, I used that in the pejorative sense.

While I agree with your sentiment... look at your avatar!

But seriously that Obama pic is terrible. And I'm pretty left on the environmentalism spectrum.

Lol! I deserve that one. Nicely played, sir.

Holy gay. Yes, I used that in the pejorative sense.

dualstow wrote:Gold's teasing us again today.

Don't worry, it'll lose all those gains at the open tomorrow and then chill all day to hold the loss.

I gotta say, I'm actually embracing this correction. I was worried at the beginning, now I'm at acceptance.

Smaller moves are much easier to make for me as well. If I received a large lump sum of money, I would have great difficulty putting it all to work immediately. I would slowly and methodically add to my positions over a course of time that felt adequate for the amount involved. It's likely too conse...

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ochotona wrote:Miners at 52 week lows

How many meters down are they?

Lol! So bad...

RE: Bitcoin... If anyone is selling equities to run to Bitcoin as a safe haven, I think they are making a gross error that will prove disastrous. I agree with this. On a related topic, I would like to put in an application for a new portfolio. I see GB, Coffeehouse, Swensen all have their own. And ...

It's exactly times like this when I most appreciate the PP firewalls. Bonds, gold, and cash don't even need to make money for the PP to be a success when stocks are falling like a rock. Diversification FTW. You said it, brother! It's easy to discount the role bonds and gold are playing right now si...

Shiv? I guess I was doing that, too, although not really consciously or aloud. Funny! How could one expect any less from a financial instrument pronounced* like something you use to stab people in the back. * by me, at any rate. Ahh, thank you. I couldn't figure out what he meant. I've always prono...