Here is Gesalt's firm's actual performance for the last 2 plus years net of their 2% management fee. In summary 6.84% annualized return and 4.95% drawdown in Canadian dollars which appears to have out performed the PRPFX fund during that time frame with much lower drawdown on a monthly basis. (I too...

Thanks Rueb - I didn't quite realize that - there are many different ways of rebalancing .....I was sort of embarressed to even mention how I was doing it in case I was wrong ha ha - oh well.

UPDATE: Well from that perspective Gold is at 18% of my portfolio. Thanks for the feedback

UPDATE based on Rueb's response just below: Xan - I was figuring my rebalance point differently than percent of entire portfolio - from my last balance point gold was down 22% and as whole it is still 18% of my entire portfolio.

Blackomen - I am not sure I understand the basis of when you rebalance - I rebalance when any one asset class meets 15/35 from my last rebalance point. Based on my last rebalance which happened last year September sometime  this is how things have changed.

Gold -22%
Stocks +8%
cash ~0%
LT Bonds  +2%

I am definitely at the rebalancing point as of 4/15

furgality - why do you say that - (there's no smiley with horns)

Thanks Clacy - great site - ran across the  risk-averse strategy where he suggested something like 15% in US stocks, 10% in international stocks, and 75% in bonds and CDs. Here's how such a strategy would have performed over the past 40 years: http://www.longtermreturns.com/p/historical-investment-r...

Yes - perfect - thank you so much!

Quick question -  Bill Gross manages the PIMCO total return fund and is the biggest mutual fund currently or so I  understand -  they have several versions including an ETF (BOND) -  PTTRX is the institutional version of this fund with operating expenses at about .46% while PTTDX is retail version a...

I am wondering if this might make it's way into the holdings that gold ETFs have on hand at various banks?

FM - phasors on stun - song from college days...

http://youtu.be/Hn17qiva0gk

Thought I share a video I put together of my recent 387 river mile - 8 day trip down the mississippi river from Red Wing, Minnesota to Burlington Iowa - went through 16 lock and dams and some very beautiful river country. The trip was on a little express cruiser which was towed from Fairfield Iowa t...

MT - I am wondering if it could actually be your chair - is it possible that somehow the shape of the chair can compromise circulation in the legs in some way - I know you have a very good chair - I have a body built and am very happy with it but still thought I'd ask. I for one have noticed some pa...

I thought it would be worth sharing slippage based on actual fills compared to hypotheticals on the ESM2 (emini S&P 500 June 12 futures contract) and EMDM2 (emini S&P 400 June 12 futures contract). The system logic is such that buy/sell orders are sent at the same time for both markets. Thes...

I have a diesel suv - it get's better gas mileage that say a bmw 3 series and I was able to write off the car over 5 years as part of my business which I appreciated. I like nice cars and have several however wonder if it is worth the money. Can't believe people took all those pictures of hummers an...

Speaking of never having died or at least not remembering it (for those who believe in reincarnation). I ran into this rather beautiful "near death" experience. http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html You have to scroll down a little to the start of the story which has a...

saw it in 3D last monday - conned my men's team into going - total fun! I was a little bit surprised that it's box office returns on the first weekend were not all that good. I liked prince of persia as well. Also enjoyed Thor...but I guess that is not a disney flick. I have also been enjoying some ...

I often spend time forgiving any judgements or limited perceptions I hold on people and situations and general flavor of life I seem to be experiencing. If I find a situation where I can't find a place in my heart to forgive I forgive that person for being jerk - sort of works in a off kind of way. ...

some additional rambling  ;D What I thought was interesting is that this video reviews a  yale endowment type approach (also note Swensen’s talk takes place in spring 2008 just before yale endowment got sacked along with others) but what is particularly interesting is how it compares to a risk parit...

Nice you tube lecture... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AtSlRK0SZoM Financial Markets (ECON 252) David Swensen, Yale's Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University's endowment, discusses the tactics and tools that Yale and other endowments use to create long-ter...

MT - I very much appreciate that suggestion  - just wondering if anyone ever did any research on rebalance looking at the scenario

One question I have is what do folks suggest when one asset is up nearly 10% and the worst performing asset is down say 5% or more but as a whole everything falls withint the 15/35% bands...but the difference between worst and best exceeds 15% for example. Has anyone tested this type of scenario? I ...

These are great posts...sort of reminds me of chicken soup for the permanent portfolio ;-) - there are several chicken soup for the soul co-authors that live in the little town of Fairfield Iowa (where i live) or have lived here at one time or another. Btw we had the record turnout for the caucus la...

Congrats on the book deal...definitely looking forward to it...as for creating a mutual fund while I have not researched the idea - I remember Mebane Faber of GTAA and Ivy Portfolio fame said they considered creating a mutual fund but chose an ETF as their vehicle instead ...the link below cites som...

Happy New Year everyone - great to read all the wisdom and information on this forum.

Here is a piece of music I wrote to celebrate the new year that I thought I'd share ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... gRrlv09V0Q