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Bridgewater's All Weather fund is one of the closest implementations of the PP although I never seen any mention of the PP or Harry Browne in any of the literature they've publicized.

I use T-Mobile's $30/mo plan with 100 minutes and 5 GB of LTE data per month (in the US.)  This works on any modern unlocked smartphone. You may need a Skype unlimited account (for about $3/mo) if you make a lot of calls.  I tend to use Skype to make all of my outgoing calls and save my 100 minutes...

I use T-Mobile's $30/mo plan with 100 minutes and 5 GB of LTE data per month (in the US.)  This works on any modern unlocked smartphone. You may need a Skype unlimited account (for about $3/mo) if you make a lot of calls.  I tend to use Skype to make all of my outgoing calls and save my 100 minutes ...

I'm considering switching my tax-exempt and tax-deferred accounts to a variation of Ray Dalio's All-Weather strategy (at least the versions he released to the public.)  Risk parity might be a bit tax inefficient so I'm still sticking with the PP in my taxable accounts.

Up to you guys..  I'm fine with either a separate forum or renaming this to "other lazy portfolios."  The bottom line is, I'm far more interested in discussing other lazy asset allocations rather than the few PP funds out there.

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I'll admit I sometimes engage in speculative rebalancing if the asset over 30% is overbought or under 20% is oversold..  but I'll still respect the rebalancing bands and manually rebalance at 15/35.

IMO, the PP is the closest allocation I've seen to casting a completely neutral view on the economy.  It sounds counter-intuitive but even going 100%, which seems like the default state for many people, is NOT a neutral view.  In that case, you're betting that your cash will outperform all assets an...

Just like the flash crash half a decade ago although the markets felt a bit more orderly on Monday than that fateful day.

The scenario you're envisioning to was referred to as "tight money recession" by Harry Browne. During this time, stocks, bonds, and gold may all simultaneously decline. When this happens, it's not just the PP that suffers: everyone invested in anything not 100% cash gets burned in the sho...

For your variable portfolio, stop losses make sense.

For the permanent portfolio assets, stop losses basically defeat the purpose.

Murphy's law: the day I make a contribution to my PP, some asset drops the ball..  this time, it's bonds (but thankfully, I added most of my contribution to gold since that was my most underweight asset and I was rebalancing from contributions.)

Usually anywhere between $1000 (absolute minimum) to $10,000 (absolute maximum, unless I have a big purchase coming up soon)

A nice bear trap set up on Friday..  shorts must be in a lot of pain today.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Warcraft classes but I guess you can generalize them to all RPGs. Stocks = Wizard/Mage: They can inflict a ton of damage but are also easily killed. LT Treasuries = Soldier: They can absorb a ton of damage and protect the mages against formidable foes. Cash/ST Tr...

Use the NYTimes Buy/Rent Calculator: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?abt=0002&abg=1 Enter something like 8-9% for your expected investment returns (avg PP returns), the annual rate of appreciation of your local real estate (could be anywhere from 5-10%), h...

Cash will hit rebalancing bands more often than you think if you make regular contributions..  or what I usually do is just buy the most lagging asset each time.

I'm open to engaging in an intelligent debate with Gold naysayers, but to hear the same old regurgitated excuses (like "you can't eat gold") leaves me quite disheartened.

I work for an investment firm so we have to disclose our personal trades to comply with the law.  My boss had to remind me in recent days to disclose my trades and I told him I didn't make any.  He's perplexed, saying it's suicidal not to go all cash now.  ... I'd say give him a copy of the pp book...

Wow.  That's also a good reminder that everyone needs to learn how to invest their own money and not blindly trust the "experts". [img width=400]http://mediacdn.snorgcontent.com/media/catalog/product/s/t/standbackkid_fullpic_artwork.jpg[/img] In an industry where most (though not all) &qu...

My "PP" implementation (if you can even call it a PP) is: 25% SPY and VTI 25% GLD 25% TLT 25% UUP (I intend to gradually phase UUP out to SHY as interest rates rise) Can you explain your thought process please? Instead of collecting negligible interest payments from SHY, I'd rather specul...

My "PP" implementation (if you can even call it a PP) is:

25% SPY and VTI
25% GLD
25% TLT
25% UUP (I intend to gradually phase UUP out to SHY as interest rates rise)

I work for an investment firm so we have to disclose our personal trades to comply with the law.  My boss had to remind me in recent days to disclose my trades and I told him I didn't make any.  He's perplexed, saying it's suicidal not to go all cash now.  His words were something like "if you'...

Try this philosophy:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/ ... tion-diet/