ochotona wrote: I will send you a PM

Why not post the info here so all of us can benefit from what you have the say. : )

I haven't seen the returns for a EU PP posted. Anyone has them? Thanks!

dualstow wrote:

ILoveMoney wrote: Could you please post the link to the thread where Tyler originally talked about this? Thanks!

http://portfoliocharts.com/portfolios/

{tyler's site}

Thanks!

I reviewed the portfolios Tyler highlighted and decided to go with two: the Ivy Portfolio and Swedroe's Minimize Fat Tails Portfolio. I realized that I am much calmer and I'm not worried about the performance of individual stocks. That's a great relief for me. Nice. Could you please post the link t...

My personal implementation is one annual rebalance except for the XIV component which I use and then I only rebalance that with the SHY component and leave the rest alone. #1 Can I ask what your rules are for re-balancing the XIV component? (How much does XIV have to go up (or down?) before you tak...

I read somewhere Desert keeps the bonds until maturity? So he has essentially a 10-0 year laddered bond allocation. Is that right?

Google finance?

https://www.google.com/finance/portfoli ... WcUN3NtbgN

Thanks Frugal. I figured that would be the case. Didn't know you could do that in Google fiance though. Overall the portfolio is still up 5% YTD. Long bonds - 25% of their highs. Large cap stocks depending on what index are - 5% to - 10% of their highs. Think gold is down 5% down as well.  I am not ...

frugal wrote: That is EU-PP.

What's the ticker symbol Frugal? Do you have a direct link?

For the European Investor YTD

Stocks: YTD +16%
Long Bonds: -3%  (lost 19% of NAV in one month).
Gold: + 8%

Thanks for posting!

I have gold deposits in Euros, I wish I would have them in Dollars. It's frustrating to see what has happened when the Dollar was raising the some weeks ago. The Euro price was exploding and in Dollars, not a significantly big price increase. Tricky with different currencies. I'm sure this is na�ve...

European long-term bonds - you get a very low yield in a depreciating currency. Unheard of in decades of financial history. ECB QE is competetitive devaluation. Exporting deflation. Onshoring jobs. Driving up inflation, devaluing debts. That's all fine by me - but I wouldn't put my savings into EUR...

Happy to see the forums back! Would be happy to donate a few bucks if needed.

If you have a lot of money and don't want to put it into the PP all at once, it's fine to divide it into aliquots and buy into all 4 assets at regular intervals, e.g. monthly.  That gets expensive with gold so you might want to buy that less often, e.g. every 3 months. Could you explain why you wou...

Thanks dualstow!  I wonder about whether there is a piece of advice in here worth considering: In nearly every case, under nearly every valuation scenario, when you stretch the performance period out to 25 years or more, a basket of a given index bought and held on the date it was acquired, with ab...

I am a fan of putting around 10% of investment money into a dedicated long term buy and hold VP consisting of one position... an S&P 500 index/ETF. No trading, no rebalancing. Just reinvest the dividends and leave it alone until I hit 55 when I will probably start folding it into the PP, gradua...

Many of us here in the US could be in your shoes in a year or two. We just don't know what will happen but we have to at least accept that as a possible scenario. To me you are betting against the Euro with your US LTTs, so it's a bit of a speculative play, but I do think you have to do something b...

I am no expert at this and my question may reveal my ignorance but here's 3 things that stick out in my mind. 1: But I like frugal's approach.  Just have two separate US and German PPs with a shared gold kitty and shift your contributions accordingly depending on how the weather is blowing. For me, ...

Thanks for posting MG.

How can I get this? I entered my name and email and all I get is. "Thank You! Your form has been submitted."

No email, nothing.... can you perhaps upload the book to mediafire or another file host and share it here, if you have it?

What's forum features don't satisfy you here that you want to start a G+ community?

This is their email. You should have an answer within a week.
anfrage@boerse-stuttgart.de

Got a reply from the Euwax folks on the maximum bid/ask spread.

Here's what they told me.

There is no definition of a maximum spread.

Nevertheless the issuer is anxious to offer the etc-product with a spread of not higher than 1,2%, with trying not to exceed 1,5%.

Frugal, I like your enthusiasm and am happy to reply to your questions however please realize I have put a lot of time in putting this portfolio together. Just like I put a decent amount of time in creating the post here on the forum. It really annoyed me (so it appears) you didn't even take the tim...

I have been reading this forum almost daily for a year! I love the PP concept. The stocks, bonds, gold & cash, I like it all. :) Anyway... after a lot of thought and trial and error I have come up with this portfolio. I work/live in Belgium. Please be brutally honest in your assessment of it. Lo...