Perfect_simulation, You may want to re-think this. Lots of information in that thread, thanks for sharing. Someone in there confirmed this strategy has been great since 2009, but clearly it didn't work too well in the early 2000s. I'll have to reconsider, but I'm doing so well right now I don't wan...

mukramesh wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:52 pm
Quick correction here, if all assets move up together, you'd rebalance by selling them and adding to your cash

when all assets are going down, are they going down or is it cash going up?

Just for fun for those interested in more advanced rebalancing techniques. A basic strategy is to rebalance not at all (or very infrequently) when volatility is low and rebalance frequently when volatility is high. For those of you who follow my leveraged posts in the VP, this is basically why I am...

How did you backtest it? You would have to know the top 8 stocks on Jan 1 of every year. Is that information available somewhere? I haven’t had any luck finding that data. I used portfoliovisualizer.com and yes I don't have the SP500 components for each year but I did ok googling like "sp500 c...

jalanlong wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:37 pm Isn't that fund completely dependent on a narrow area of the market? It has 24% of its assets in Apple and Microsoft right now.

I don't know what the weightings are but MGK has more stocks in it than XMMO does

jalanlong wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:42 pm Why top 8 as opposed to top 5 or 10?

The weighting of the stocks in SP500 really drops off after the top 10, so I just think top 8 gives the best oomph. Top 5 would hurt a little too much if one of the stocks under-performed.

I have started delving into the new Factor ETFs that are out there. Momentum seems to be an interesting one. For example the S&P LC, MC and SC Momentum ETFs from Invesco (SPMO, XMMO,XSMO) backtested for the past 5 years of their existence very handily beat the basic S&P indexes to which the...

I recently re-read the books on the PP. And I have a general question about the stock portion. If stocks are in the portfolio for times of prosperity and economic growth, why would you want to own stocks that do not fit that description? Why would you want to own Utilities or Consumer Staples? Woul...

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...

Looks like TSLA is in the top8 now - that was quick. I'm already up on Walmart so I don't mind switching it out sooner than later. Long term I'm a little bit concerned about EDV but I take the PP as a whole and not actually worried if it starts to dip

I changed to PP after the March 2020 lows due to covid19. I read Harry Browne's book and I am going along with it pretty closely but with some twists. 25% IAU (I don't have a secure location for physical) 25% EDV (longest term treasuries I can find in an etf) 25% SHV (cash / short treasury etf) 25% ...