1) You can't trust any of the bitcoin banks not to vanish with all the assets. "Bitcoin bank" is a misnomer, since the whole point is that bitcoin does not require banks. I think what you mean is that you can't trust any of the exchanges not to vanish with all the assets. Most of the peop...

Tyler your research is great. Did you ever think of publishing it all in a book?

Thanks guys! You should have an email from me. Really looking forward to your feedback.

All the best,

Jake

I welcome feedback from anyone here on the PP forum who would like to be a beta-reader for my new book Four Ways To Quit The Rat Race: Choose Your Own Path To Freedom, Independence And The Life You Want. I'll acknowledge everyone who provides feedback in the book and give you a free copy of the fina...

Thanks Stone!

Hi Jake, thanks for your advice which would be fine if I'd have a VP. The point is: I don't wanna have a VP which may sound strange. But I have been trading and speculating so long that I have enough from screening charts, filtering buy candidates, shorting wheat etc. If I had a VP I couldn't help ...

How about having a clean Euro-based PP but also buying US stocks as part of your variable portfolio? In other words, use 25% of your PP for an Euro-zone stock index fund and, separately, buy as much US stocks in your variable portfolio as you have risk appetite for.

I recently took part in a discussion with Joshua from the Radical Personal Finance podcast about the PP. I gave a shout out to Craig & MediumTex's book and pointed people to this forum as a resource. In the podcast I spoke just  about my personal perspective on why I chose the PP as a private in...

I went the business route, but I've met a lot of extreme savers who went the salaried employee route.

Here's a presentation that I did comparing four different ways to quit the rat race (including the two options in the OP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-dxV8VfPE

What if this is like inception, and we are in a dream within a dream... 

Quick reminder: today is the last day you can pick up my book Becoming an Entrepreneur for free. http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Entrepreneur-Freedom-Fulfillment-Business-ebook/dp/B00JLTUFSS/ It's still #1 on Amazon's best selling free kindle books for Entrepreneurship & Small Business. The book ...

Mark Leavy wrote: I read this when you first released it.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was great to see how you crystalized many of the thoughts that you had been exploring with your podcast.

Thanks Mark! That's great to hear

Thanks guys! Kshartle, just to let you know-  you don't actually need a kindle to get the ebook. You can buy kindle books and read them on Amazon's free Kindle app which is available on pretty much any platform (e.g. on your PC, Mac, phone, tablet, etc.). Amazon stores your kindle purchases on their...

I just want to let you guys know that my new book Becoming an Entrepreneur: How to Find Freedom and Fulfillment as a Business Owner is currently free on Amazon until Friday. http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Entrepreneur-Freedom-Fulfillment-Business-ebook/dp/B00JLTUFSS/ Despite being a total noob at se...

Here is a 25m podcast I did about the Burton Malkiel's famous book A Random Walk Down Wall Street . The podcast includes a comparison between Malkiel's advice and Harry Browne's suggestions of the Permanent Portfolio. Episode webpage: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/2014/05/155-review-of-random-walk...

Welcome, cyclesguy!

Have you considered treating your mining shares as your variable portfolio rather than modifying your PP? The end result would be the same for now, but going forward your choice to trade mining shares would be independent of the rebalancing you do within the PP.

Wade has updated his analysis to include the bond market:

http://wpfau.blogspot.mx/2014/01/greate ... arket.html

Thanks so much for all the helpful suggestions guys! Somehow I missed the fact that there had been responses on this thread until now. CA PP, your suggestion gets the quote perfectly from Yahoo and I thought all I would need to do is convert my holdings to ounces for iBank to update. However, iBank ...

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the current price of physical gold bars expressed in GBP per kg on Yahoo Finance? I'm using the iBank personal finance app (for mac), which will automatically downloads stock quotes but only if it can search Yahoo symbol lookup with http://finance.yahoo.com/...

I run a UK PP and I am probably about to hit a rebalance band for stocks. I am waiting for 35% and not jumping the gun. Last proper rebalance was summer 2011 when I sold gold (how times have changed!). However, I did have a semi-rebalance in 2012, which was triggered by administrative changes. Long ...

Thanks cnh for the interesting comments and One Day for the interesting link!

Traditional market cap indices struggle to defend themselves against the accusation that they bloat up on overvalued equities, mechanically shoveling in more of the hot stuff like a compulsive eater – especially when the market is frothy. In contrast, fundamental indices are meant to break this imp...

Ad Orientem wrote: My heart goes out to ya buddy.
http://youtu.be/pj-1b1Yvep8

Peter Schiff completely revises his opinion and all his predictions in light of new evidence: http://youtu.be/em3ViA23OUY

(just kidding)

I'm with you in your skepticism of treasuries. That's why I have large variable portfolio deficient in LTTs and loaded up in gold.  :-\  I seemed to know what you do now a few years ago... In August 2011, I was forced to rebalance out of gold when I hit a rebalancing band.  I hated selling gold whe...

Looks like today will end in tears for some and riches for others in the Bitcoin world.