The PP is up 1.63% through Jan 31. Are we headed for 20% by Dec 31?
I sure hope so. I started the PP in Apr 2013, and was down about 5% through 12/31/13.
2014
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Re: 2014
Looks like it's on pace for only a 19.56% return, stuper1. But, wait! That is without compounding. Seriously, it must be a drag to jump in and then experience even a small drawdown. I just started with the PP this month and check each day to see what's up and what's down. As others have noted, it's strange to hear so much in the financial news about the stock market and very little about other assets. At least now when I hear that stocks "got hammered," "plunged" or "took a beating", I figure that gold or LTTs are there to pick up the slack. Good luck.
Re: 2014
As the year began I was sitting at 37% stock and playing with the idea of letting it ride with the market doing so well. I finally decided to stick with the plan, bit the bullet, and re-balanced into gold and LT's.
That seems like a good decision right now but it's still too early to tell.
That seems like a good decision right now but it's still too early to tell.
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Re: 2014
https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133 ... l-returns/
Looking at the historic performance, it makes me rather optimistic that 2014 will be a good year.
3/3 times when the annual return was negative, the following year gave a double digit return....2/3 years were in the 20% region. A reversion to mean...
This considering all the other advantages of the portfolio!
Looking at the historic performance, it makes me rather optimistic that 2014 will be a good year.
3/3 times when the annual return was negative, the following year gave a double digit return....2/3 years were in the 20% region. A reversion to mean...
This considering all the other advantages of the portfolio!
Re: 2014
I almost never look at the portfolio any more, but for the sake of everyone here (especially the new PPers), I hope that 2014 is a great year.
The reason that I almost never look at it any more is that I eventually discovered that every time I looked at it, it was only up, flat or down, and none of that information really had any relevance to me on a given day, and thus at some point I just stopped looking.
It's not that I have nerves of steel; it's more like I just got bored.
I've always thought that an eggplant would make an outstanding investor because it has no consciousness to sabotage its long-term investment strategy.
I know some eggplant-like people who were mostly untroubled by the 2008 financial crisis simply because they didn't really understand what was happening and they just kept plowing money into their 401(k) accounts with stock-heavy allocations and they have done really well in the years following the crisis (though they probably don't realize it).
The reason that I almost never look at it any more is that I eventually discovered that every time I looked at it, it was only up, flat or down, and none of that information really had any relevance to me on a given day, and thus at some point I just stopped looking.
It's not that I have nerves of steel; it's more like I just got bored.
I've always thought that an eggplant would make an outstanding investor because it has no consciousness to sabotage its long-term investment strategy.
I know some eggplant-like people who were mostly untroubled by the 2008 financial crisis simply because they didn't really understand what was happening and they just kept plowing money into their 401(k) accounts with stock-heavy allocations and they have done really well in the years following the crisis (though they probably don't realize it).
Q: “Do you have funny shaped balloons?”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”
Re: 2014
I re-balanced and then made a New Year's resolution not to look at the portfolio until this time next year. A watched pot never boils.murphy_p_t wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133 ... l-returns/
Looking at the historic performance, it makes me rather optimistic that 2014 will be a good year.
3/3 times when the annual return was negative, the following year gave a double digit return....2/3 years were in the 20% region. A reversion to mean...
This considering all the other advantages of the portfolio!
But you have no idea how happy I'll be at this point in my investing career to get a good return like the one you are hinting at as I'm nearing retirement. The last few years I have only been looking at the portfolio going up as much as I put in, at best.
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Re: 2014
Nice!MediumTex wrote: I almost never look at the portfolio any more, but for the sake of everyone here (especially the new PPers), I hope that 2014 is a great year.
The reason that I almost never look at it any more is that I eventually discovered that every time I looked at it, it was only up, flat or down, and none of that information really had any relevance to me on a given day, and thus at some point I just stopped looking.
It's not that I have nerves of steel; it's more like I just got bored.
I've always thought that an eggplant would make an outstanding investor because it has no consciousness to sabotage its long-term investment strategy.
I know some eggplant-like people who were mostly untroubled by the 2008 financial crisis simply because they didn't really understand what was happening and they just kept plowing money into their 401(k) accounts with stock-heavy allocations and they have done really well in the years following the crisis (though they probably don't realize it).
Thank you.
On your savings you only have USPP?
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