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- Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Dallas shooting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10570
Re: Dallas shooting
If only open carry were legal in Dallas, citizens would have stopped this immediately.
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:10 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Oh Come On
- Replies: 109
- Views: 44447
Re: Oh Come On
I believe everyone should send me their gold for safekeepingKbg wrote:For the record...I believe people should do what is most suited to them as they see fit with their assets.
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Oh Come On
- Replies: 109
- Views: 44447
Re: Oh Come On
Someone' s probably done the work on the physical gold (in the average case) -- check insurance rates
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:00 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
- Replies: 571
- Views: 337415
Re: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
Yeah, I understand the value of cash. Right now I'm only doing this 2x PP as a small percentage of my portfolio anyways. But if I had 75% cash I would be tempted to overleverage
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:33 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
- Replies: 571
- Views: 337415
Re: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
since it's a 3x daily fund, does the intraday really matter (any more than a 1x fund)? I like the idea of a 1x PP with 3x ETFs, but I'm not sure I could sit on all that cash. Right now, I sit on 50% cash (so a 2x total exposure) and even with that I'm thinking "man, if only I had that 50% inves...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Why should PP continue going up?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 39111
Re: Why should PP continue going up?
me write good too
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:28 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1784552
Re: The GOLD scream room
Not to dampen the enthusiasm, but since I went all in with the PP about 7 years ago, the only sector that's still in the red is gold. I'm very happy that it's rising, of course, but it's still 2% below the break even point. Did you at least hit a rebalance? I've been accumilulatig the lagging asset...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:11 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
- Replies: 192
- Views: 99865
Re: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
Earlier, I sold some phys and picked up CEF for tax loss harvesting. I've had it more than a month, but held on because it was performing fine and had a decent discount to NAV. Recently, the discount has closed by a few percent (still no premium). Should I just switch back? During brexit, it lagged ...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:06 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
- Replies: 571
- Views: 337415
Re: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
Man I hope I hit a rebalance band soon. It's getting up there, but all the volatile assets are up a similar amount since my last rebalance. Likely "cash" will hit the lower band if these trends continue
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:56 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Racial Profiling and Mass Discrimination Now Legal
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3199
Re: Racial Profiling and Mass Discrimination Now Legal
"if you fail to pay bail or appear for court, a judge will issue a warrant to render you “arrestable on sight” in the future." Well, yeah. This is a bad thing? Over a traffic ticket or other minorly revenue generators? Of course, you think people should be able to skip their court dates b...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Racial Profiling and Mass Discrimination Now Legal
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3199
Re: Racial Profiling and Mass Discrimination Now Legal
"if you fail to pay bail or appear for court, a judge will issue a warrant to render you “arrestable on sight” in the future."
Well, yeah. This is a bad thing?
Well, yeah. This is a bad thing?
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:04 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Brexit Schmexit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4495
Re: Brexit Schmexit
Curlew, What is that a chart of? You cropped off the legend. presumably his portfolio. looks similar to mine Curlew, ever notice an effect in google finance that makes it seem like you are making new highs when you know you really aren't? For example, one day will close at 100 for me, and then the ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:35 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Get Off this Forum, and Go Outside!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3546
Re: Get Off this Forum, and Go Outside!
Hat Tip: Assbuilder.com“Extreme sitting” – sitting intensely for exercise during free time, is associated with increased thickness and jiggle regardless of diet.
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 6:24 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16498
Re: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
I'll pay you $5 per bleeding eyeball, but I want to keep the eyeball.
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:44 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16498
Re: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
I've written quite a bit about leveraged ETFs in the 20% returns thread. Agree with the comments on margin. I would spend sometime looking at 2xETF costs compared with margin as well as look at the ETF prospectus to see what the return components are...they may include interest on cash as part of t...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:23 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16498
Re: PP with 2x leverage (no 2x funds)
Interest rates rising will increase your cost of borrowing at the same time long bonds and stocks tank. Read the interactive brokers page on maintenance margins and understand all the calculations, and plug it into a spreadsheet to model how much of a drop you can experience before a margin call. Th...
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Desire to "Cash In or Cash Out!"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7784
Re: Desire to "Cash In or Cash Out!"
My IRR so far in the PP has been 5.7%, so I actually think I'm due another 10% gain before I start worrying about "outperformance"
- Mon May 09, 2016 4:33 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Next Once-in-a-Generation Breakthrough in Audio: MQA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3023
Re: The Next Once-in-a-Generation Breakthrough in Audio: MQA
Temporal blur causes earbleedsPointedstick wrote: What's wrong with current audio technology? Serious question, I have no idea.
- Sun May 08, 2016 2:31 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP Facebook Request!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8804
Re: PP Facebook Request!!
#pooping
- Sat May 07, 2016 2:27 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hooray! Forum is back up!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 25419
Re: Hooray! Forum is back up!
We really need to implement all three suggestions:
Twitter
Facebook
Tech novelists backup server
That way, we have four total modes of communication. If at any time on or two are going down, hopefully they are compensated by the other 2-3
Tech novelists backup server
That way, we have four total modes of communication. If at any time on or two are going down, hopefully they are compensated by the other 2-3
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:14 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1784552
Re: The GOLD scream room
Wrong. 1+2+8+0=11. 1*1=1. Illuminati has one eyedualstow wrote:Nothing. It's just kind of a nicely abrupt surge.dragoncar wrote: What's special about 1280?
Illuminati confirmed
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:57 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The solution to nearly everything: Working less
- Replies: 37
- Views: 14679
Re: The solution to nearly everything: Working less
Also the logarithmic scale on the X axis in MG's graph. It is interesting to see how many more hours the average U.S. worker puts in compared to EU countries. The productivity/GDP output is not the only yardstick though. Clearly that hasn't led to improvements in quality of life, or at least not ...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:55 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1784552
Re: The GOLD scream room
What's special about 1280?
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Really Big One
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10188
Re: The Really Big One
Yawn. There was a small quake centered near Vancouver Island a few months ago. So I don't know if there will be many stress-relieving quakes, one big one, a bunch of middlin' ones, etc. I know for a fact that there are going to be tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, etc. with loss of life this year NOT...
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The solution to nearly everything: Working less
- Replies: 37
- Views: 14679
Re: The solution to nearly everything: Working less
Yikes... Need a gdp per hour worked chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked Top 10: Rank Country GDP (PPP) per hour 2013 1 Norway 75.18 2 Luxembourg 73.22 3 United States 67.32 4 Belgium 6...