The Bond Dream Room

[Reub]

With the seeming popularity of the Gold Scream Room, I thought that I'd start a bond alternative with a positive twist. TLT up 12% so far this year! Yeaah!

[barrett]

It feels like I have to knock on wood in this room. It's the power of loss aversion that makes the Gold Scream Room such a nice place to go and vent. BTW, Reub, I love what you've done to this place.

[Reub]

It feels like I have to knock on wood in this room. It's the power of loss aversion that makes the Gold Scream Room such a nice place to go and vent. BTW, Reub, I love what you've done to this place.

Is it the long term drapes?

[dragoncar]

I always though the gold scream room was for up AND down - like a roller coaster.  Basically higher volatility in gold.

[dualstow]

Great thread title.

Pleasant dreams, everyone.

[Reub]

When it comes to bonds don't pinch me 'cause I don't want to wake up.

[annieB]

No pot smoking in the Dream Room!!

[dualstow]

TLT at 114.89

I'm floating on a vanilla cream cloud ...

[Jake]

What if this is like inception, and we are in a dream within a dream... 

[Reub]

What if this is like inception, and we are in a dream within a dream... 

Don't even try to wake me up in my dream within a dream!

[Reub]

TLT at 114.89

I'm floating on a vanilla cream cloud ...

+14.5% YTD including dividends

I'm going to venture that those of us who have purchased 30 yr. LTT's recently are up even more than the TLT price.

[dualstow]

What if this is like inception, and we are in a dream within a dream... 

I'll take it! No red pill for me.  (Whoops, wrong movie).

I'm going to venture that those of us who have purchased 30 yr. LTT's recently are up even more than the TLT price.

Seems like it. I'm mostly in directly held bonds, but the price of TLT is what I look at to gauge bonds in general. It's easier.

[modeljc]

A great thread title! 

Who would have thought bonds would be ruling the roost this year.  I thought rates had nowhere to go but up.

Check out the poll on TLT:

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/bo ... /#msg88412

I been wrong and several others!  The future is very unpredictable.

[AdamA]

I'm glad someone made a "bond dream room."

Go bonds!

[rickb]

I misread it as "Blond Dream Room".

Imagine my disappointment.

I would very much enjoy reading about blonds' dreams.  OTOH, I strongly suspect Reub is not the kind of blond whose dreams I'd like to read about.

[dragoncar]

I misread it as "Blond Dream Room".

Imagine my disappointment.

I would very much enjoy reading about blonds' dreams.  OTOH, I strongly suspect Reub is not the kind of blond whose dreams I'd like to read about.

How do you think a female would take your comment? 

[rickb]

I misread it as "Blond Dream Room".

Imagine my disappointment.

I would very much enjoy reading about blonds' dreams.  OTOH, I strongly suspect Reub is not the kind of blond whose dreams I'd like to read about.

How do you think a female would take your comment?

You're obviously referring to this thread http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/ot ... the-forum/ where I'm asking what women think about the forum.

Read my post here again.

It's clearly a joke.  But the joke isn't that I was hoping to find a thread full of dreams about blonds, but rather a thread where blonds would post their dreams.  Perhaps too subtle, but I'm turning the "dumb blond" stereotype inside out. 

[Reub]

I misread it as "Blond Dream Room".

Imagine my disappointment.

I would very much enjoy reading about blonds' dreams.  OTOH, I strongly suspect Reub is not the kind of blond whose dreams I'd like to read about.

Stay out of my dreams, rickb!

[Reub]

Has anyone checked on the price of bonds lately? The yield on the 10 year is down to 2.4% and 2.0% sure looks possible! Please don't wake me from this dream.

I never would have even owned a LTT before I found the Permanent Portfolio.

[dualstow]

Has anyone checked on the price of bonds lately? The yield on the 10 year is down to 2.4% and 2.0% sure looks possible! Please don't wake me from this dream.

I never would have even owned a LTT before I found the Permanent Portfolio.

Yep. TLT breached 116. It's nice to see blue instead of red on the bond part of my google spreadsheet.

[dualstow]

This morning was also my big bond interest payday, whoo-hoo!

[dualstow]

Has anyone checked on the price of bonds lately? The yield on the 10 year is down to 2.4% and 2.0% sure looks possible! Please don't wake me from this dream.

I never would have even owned a LTT before I found the Permanent Portfolio.

Yep. TLT breached 116. It's nice to see blue instead of red on the bond part of my google spreadsheet.

...make that 117.

[dualstow]

Whoa, I'm going to stop counting out loud now that it's 118.

[Reub]

Again, without my discovery of the PP I never would have invested a cent in long term treasuries....so thank you, craigr MT and, of course, Harry Browne!

[dualstow]

For those of you not looking, but reading this forum, TLT's doing its thing today.