vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:26 am Does your country have any government investment similar to our TIPS?

Nope, we don't, though Germany, Spain, France and Italy have for example.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:27 am I saw one of these at the Delaware "punkin chunkin" several years ago. Awesome machine.

Haha, was not aware, thanks for sharing. People are just awesome inventing that kind of stuff, indeed.

I do hope you and your family are doing alright, Vil Thanks DS. Not sure we are doing alright honestly. Definitely I/we are not desperate, but anxious for sure. Most likely I've mentioned it, but my plan was to do an early retirement, which unfortunately might not happen in the very near future. Of...

Yup, that's it. In general, you have 2 types of airguns - 1) when the projectile is being pushed by some kind of spring , and 2) shooting force is generated by compressed air that's being released through a tiny port with (sometimes) enormous pressure. There is really a wide variety of such guns.. A...

Agree? Not? Bought a new bipod for my hunting crossbow and looking for new powerful hunting PCP (note: here firearms are forbidden unfortunately and the one my old man is in posession of, is rather outdated, note2: AGT Vulcan 3 looks as a decent candidate). That's the rebalancing I do at the moment...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:00 pm ZFL, which is essentially the Canadian benchmark equivalent of TLT, is down by 23.82% year to date.

And DBXG (Eurozone gov bond 25+) is -39.19% YTD. Interesting times we live in.

Official inflation here is 18%. Guess unofficial is twice than that. Nice, ah? Today I realized that the local store that's normally quite busy during early morning hours has almost no clients now, the same time. Wondering how far will that go in EU...? ECB is lead by bunch of morons ... Still housi...

In days like this really wondering where all hedge funds money goes, if not in cash or in short positions...

How many folks around here are actually in the PP? I can only think of maybe 3 folks? Do you have statistically significant data-set for your conclusion ? ;D I have US-PP since 2.5 years, only contributing 1/year to keep the percentages. Oddly enough I do not even have a look at it. I guess my VP i...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 1:39 pm Love that black knight.
I did order a krug today.

Guys, what's the spread you 'enjoy' as of now with Apmex (?) ?

The dealer I use (=Tavex, one of the biggest ones in EU, and leader in Northern Europe) is now on 2.7% for some of the bullion coins..

And yes, while bond prices do decline at times, they're still less risky than stocks, especially if the average duration is not too long. Thanks, that's clear. What seems I cannot really accept and digest is that at the moment who's losing less is actually the winner. Still have the childish belief...

So he suggests a milder glide path for the red zone As pre-retirement I was genuinely interested on this, however if I can recall from this article (which you shared in the past if I am not mistaken) the glide path was in essence - move some of the stock allocation to bonds when you are in the red ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:01 am let 2022 be the year of GOLD

If 2022 is not the year of GOLD, it would be definitely the year of pain.

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:50 am https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/

Mortgage rates heading higher. Not much demand for bonds that yield negative in real terms.

Days like today one can think that the time has come for the whole market to go no-bid.

Sorry for being ignorant, but did not have time today to read the news for US - what's the current 'explanation' for the S&P/QQQ down days ? In EU we had the ECB announcement yesterday, which might serve as some explanation ... Inflation CPI higher than expected. So the freakout continues. Than...

Sorry for being ignorant, but did not have time today to read the news for US - what's the current 'explanation' for the S&P/QQQ down days ?

In EU we had the ECB announcement yesterday, which might serve as some explanation ...

Yeah, definitely 20% commodities held in the Ivy portfolio needs some strong conviction, given that in the short term you will buy at high price (the war in Ukraine is already taken into account, and what happens if it ends some time soon..? For markets I do not think that it will make any sort of d...

Lagarde on Cryptos here Breaking news! European Central banker doesn't believe in Crypto and thinks it should be regulated. Yes, some more breaking news coming .. As I was reading through the recent (couple days ago) Gates notes found this : Hey Bill, what do you think about Bitcoin and cryptocurre...

Lagarde on Cryptos here

The whole world is experiencing inflation, not just the US. Yes, you are definitely not alone. The euro area annual inflation rate was 7.4% in April 2022, a year earlier, the rate was 1.6%. European Union annual inflation was 8.1% in April 2022, up from 7.8% in March. A year earlier, the rate was 2...

And as completely opposite to a random observation - I am completely certain that new PP investors will get better prices. One could ask - better compared to what? Well, compared to me who did rebalancing/contribution at the beginning of this year ;D So, joypog , you may have good opportunities ahea...

Indeed, such posts might prove harmful, given Musk has shifted his focus from TWTR to GYRO (ISIN: 25252525)

In my US-PP (in USD) I have been using US7 for the bond allocation and it's combination of several durations averaging ~8 yr. Feel comfortable with it and do not plan to shift. As another random observation, I do think the sentiment will change to full blown bearish at some point as stock market doe...

Start to smell pinwheel-ish here... ;D you just miss some REIT .. For me its too much of slice & dice. Only piece of international stocks I found that is not that much corelated to US stock market is EU small caps (and in EU we are good in having the small caps really small ;-)). For REITs I ha...

Start to smell pinwheel-ish here... ;D you just miss some REIT .. For me its too much of slice & dice. Only piece of international stocks I found that is not that much corelated to US stock market is EU small caps (and in EU we are good in having the small caps really small ;-)). For REITs I hav...