50/50 VP/PP

PP allocation has been pretty stable, been letting VTI ride:
VTI: 33.5%
TLT: 23.5%
IAU: 23.5%
cash: 19.5%

VP is heavily into tech

Still around since September 2011, but pretty much just lurking: Currently 50% PP / 50% VP PP consists of: 30.20% Cash 27.36% VTI 20.40% IAU / PHYS / GLD 22.05% TLT VP Consists of individual stock in: AAPL TSLA FB NVDA I did dabble in the 3X ETFs for a short period of time in 2012/2013? but didn't l...

Khisanth wrote: IF GlobalFinancialArmageddon == True
  THEN Facebook = 20
  ELSE Facebook = 100


My predictions have usually been wrong.

I am kicking myself.

I'm still PRPFX+EDV in my IRA accounts. However, I just took a look at Yahoo Finance and learned that Facebook is one of the top 10 holdings in PRPFX.

I'm -10% in this account.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=PRPFX+Holdings

Sometimes APMEX has different tables or something which fixes itself later on, so I have two formulas that I switch between. =Index(ImportHTML("http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/precious/gold_quotes_globex.html","table",1),3,9) or =Index(ImportHTML("http://apmex.com/&qu...

I don't think there needs to be any type of liquidation, unless it's related to 401k/IRA rollovers. All the brokerages I've dealt with were able to transfer my securities in kind without it being a buy/sell transaction. The only problems I've had were the cost-basis didn't get added at the new broke...

1. I consider savings/checking as part of my taxable permanent portfolio cash allocation. I keep a larger allocation (30%) as a result. 2. I don't know how you wish to put a credit card in your account? See #1 3. If you are able to balance your portfolio fairly equally across taxable and sheltered a...

PERM also seems to have such a low trading volume it's still pretty scary.

Global X Permanent ETF (PERM)
-NYSEArca

23.76 Up 0.08(0.34%) 4:00PM EDT

Volume: 100
Avg Vol (3m): 5,470

I agree with the 30/30/30/10 split. Here's why. You are young (23) and therefore I will assume (yes I know) that what you have in your IRA/401k is tiny compared to what you will be earning. Also, your yearly IRA contributions in cash will still be a significant portion of your whole IRA. You should ...

It paced pretty slowly I'll give you that. But I think that's a set up for an explosive finale.

Kind of like witness protection I assume you go off to become a much more mundane person as a cover.

Looks like I might be waiting a month for delivery. Should I be freaking out?!

So... I ordered a Gold iPhone. Despite the iOS 7 shenanigans I want physical gold. Does this count as PP approved?

FB closing near 47.50 today. Shoulda-woulda-coulda.

BOOM.

I've been in this for two years now (Sept 2011) at all time high of gold, and so far it hasn't been performing as swimmingly as I would have expected. Based off http://www.peaktotrough.com/hbpp.cgi I only have a 1.90% CAGR over two years which feels like I might be losing out to inflation. I've done...

I'm out at 40.82 from a cost basis of $25. Commence the big FB rocket launch.

Rick Ferri wrote: I don't buy it, literally.

Like others have suggested, just getting over the hump and buying that first gold coin can be a game changer. I just might start collecting some junk silver just to have smaller units of value too!

@Khisanth, I followed your advice and changed only the dates and yield, leaving the Index portion unchanged, and it worked. No CUSIP necessary I guess, since the dates and % are supplied by me. Can I ask a question that is probably obvious to most? Where did you get the Index(ImportHTML("http:...

Once you figure out that =PRICE formula it's pretty easy to plug in the values you need: =PRICE(DATE(2013,05,15),DATE(2043,05,15),2.875%,Index(ImportHTML("http://money.cnn.com/data/bonds/","table",3),6,2),100,2,0) Here's how I've set mine up. Basically, the only thing you need to...

My preference is not to sell at all, so buy the lowest asset at the time if you are cash-heavy. This reduces taxes, transaction costs, and whatever else. Each of our situations will be unique in how we prioritize taxes, cash, or other assets of the Permanent Portfolio. We even have different sleep-a...

May I just kick myself for not rebalancing my 37% cash last week?

I haven't found a Permanent Portfolio "approved" gold mutual fund aside from GTU which is a close-ended fund that is traded on the exchange. I suppose that commodities are too volatile to be formed into a pure mutual fund that has a NAV trade once per day, thus demand for such is not profi...

This is interesting. I suspect this thread may be more revealing of our personalities than we expect.

For stocks, I prefer VTI or VTSAX. No trading fee, and 0.05% expense ratio. Index funds can also be ETFs so your understanding of ETFs may be flawed. For bonds, I prefer US Treasuries held at Vanguard For gold, I have IAU (0.25%), GTU (0.40%), and EEEEAAGLES (4% one-time fee) Cash I track as part of...

Congrats on staying the course annieB. That's all I can say at this point. Down 6% in 6 months? I don't see what the problem is. 6 months is far too short a time period to judge the performance of an investment portfolio, especially a newly-adopted one . If your time horizon is that short, you need ...