When I was researching a safer way to invest after the 2008 meltdown I came across a debate about Wellesley vs the Permanent Portfolio on a forum. I don't think it was Bogleheads but I remember that MT and Craig were on the PP side and it got pretty nasty at times. I went with Wellesley for a while...

OK here's the best I can come up with. The constraint is that GLD, the first U.S. gold ETF, has only been in existence since 2004. But this gives you a good sense of what Tyler was talking about. The general principle that he talks about in his excellent article on gold on the Portfolio Charts site...

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All, As gratitude to many wonderful investors here who have been extremely helpful, I am sharing this basic portfolio that does beat S&P in the long run, and yet it is easy to maintain. Reconfiguration is required only once a year - once you get ready to meet a New Year, sell extra and buy what is ...

I'm curious, what was your reasoning for using the 8 largest companies instead of SPY or VTI? The short answer is better returns. I did quite a bit of backtesting on portfoliovisualizer.com. I think the strategy is a bit aggressive, but I want that if I'm only having 25% allocated to stocks. I thin...

Doodle, do you have a citation for your "no taxes" statement? Just looking to get some more precision on what we're talking about. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/15/amazon-will-pay-0-in-federal-taxes-this-year.html I thought it might be something like this. The article is abo...

A follow up question would be how one would modify the PP under the conditions of a legitimate gold standard. Silver might be an interesting option. It's not the same as gold, but it's one of the closer assets to meeting the general Permanent Portfolio design intent under a gold standard. It's cert...

I think that guns, passport, bitcoin, increased physical gold allocation, increasing your digital privacy, land, upping self sufficiency skills (gardening, etc) and overall vigilance are good "variable portfolio" ideas here. I think trying to invest international or changing %s of the PP is a reall...

https://www.theoptimizingblog.com/leveraged-all-weather-portfolio/ I came across this blog yesterday and it suggests a modification to Ray Dalio's All Weather Portfolio substituting Utilities for the Commodities portion. 30% Total Stock 40% Long Term Treasury 15% Intermediate Treasury 8% Utilities ...

D1984, In your Edit 2 you indeed found the raw information to which I was trying to direct you! The way to parse the data out of what you've got involves writing a script or program. I don't think there's going to be a general-purpose tool that will do it out of the box. I would implement it in Per...

It looks like if you pull up the Network tab of the Dev Tools while refreshing the page, one of the requests that gets made is to "defaultChart?type=getcc&secids=%24FOCA%24LB%24%24;CA]FO&dataid=117&startdate=2009-06-03&enddate=2020-06-02¤cy=USD&format=1&adjusment=-" with a "plain" type. Pull ...

Do we have any computer/software/scripting experts on here? I have a quick question/issue: I am trying to get some daily data on certain mutual funds (including two that were closed/liquidated a few years ago) in order to run a backtest in Excel and PV. CRSP only has monthly data--not that I have ac...