That makes sense to me.  Anecdotal experience would lead me to think that most women are more conservative financially, which would make the HBPP a good fit, IMO. 

Wonk, I certainly wouldn't want to use 10x leverage.  You could go with 3-4x though and put a much larger percentage of your actual money in cash, and still capture the volatility of the other 3 markets with much less money tied up.  That is just a thought of possible benefits of using that kind of ...

moda, The biggest problem that I can see, would be that it would take a very large account (min $500k, possibly more) in order to dial in the 25%'s as all of these contracts represent different dollar amounts.  IIRC, a mini-S&P contract is worth roughly $60k, but gold is worth much more, so unle...

Has anyone tested the PP or variations with futures?  It would be interesting to see a portfolio with $USD, Gold, Bond and S&P futures. With a portfolio north of $100-150k, you could use futures in lieu of ETF's fairly easily. Not sure what the roll over would cost you, but if you're interested ...

The key macro theme to keep in mind when forming opinions about future inflation is that economic environments following the bursting of credit fueled asset bubbles are NOT inflationary.  This time could be different, and I think the Fed is desperately hoping for a little bit of inflation and a hea...

It is my understanding that TIPS don't preform well in times of deflation or recession (or when these things are a concern), correct?  That is one of the main purposes of cash in the HBPP system is to have an asset class that will at least maintain it's purchasing power during those times.

Do you live somewhere without property taxes? Even if I did not owe the bank, I only rent my property from the local mesne lord and the Crown, both of whom are more than willing to step in and evict me if I do not pay my annual rent.  And of course the Crown in D.C. has and continues to show willin...

I am a fan of paying off your house.  I know plenty of people that will say you're crazy for paying off low interest mortgages right now, but it seems like it is a good strategy for someone that is conservative by nature, which I believe most HBPP'ers are. Once you own your home outright, you know ...

Once you own your home outright, you know you'll never be homeless.... Do you live somewhere without property taxes? Even if I did not owe the bank, I only rent my property from the local mesne lord and the Crown, both of whom are more than willing to step in and evict me if I do not pay my annual ...

People would have to spend it for it to cause inflation. If people simply buried it in their backyards, no price inflation would occur. Thus, the printing money part is only part of the story.  You have to know what happens to the money after it is printed. Yes, if it were just burried, it wouldn't...

I am a fan of paying off your house.  I know plenty of people that will say you're crazy for paying off low interest mortgages right now, but it seems like it is a good strategy for someone that is conservative by nature, which I believe most HBPP'ers are. Once you own your home outright, you know y...

I believe there is a significant foreign equity presence built in to SPY or VTI due to the multi-national nature of the US's largest companies.

With that said, I often hold much more foreign and emerging equities in the portion of my money that is not held in the PP (about 2/3's)

I have thought about scaling in for rebalances when the RSI indicator is in overbought/oversold territory on a monthly chart.  I think however, that most times this would just coincide with being close to the 15/35% bands anyway though. That is more of a bottome fishing strategy for rebalance, which...

The PP is relative to the country you live in.  So I would buy a mutual fund or ETF based on the broad UK stock market, hold Sterling as cash, gold is gold obviously and long dated UK treasuries

I would say buy a more volatile stock index than TSM, but I personally believe the stock market is about to roll over , in which case more volatile stocks will likely fall farther than the overall market, so I don't know what to tell you. I tend to agree.  Of course predictions are rarely correct, ...

Thankfully I have stayed away from SLV recently, although I wish I would have bought some on the run up.  I am holding some PRPFX, so that has been hit fairly hard recently though.

Besides, why make it more complicated? The title of this thread is, " Simple volatile uncorrelated VP" I was just responding to his question about "other 2-4 assets that one might chose".  Frankly, there are many negatively correlated assets besides just LTT/gold miners.  If he'...

Even though Harry Browne advocated using 4 asset classes (US stocks, Gold, Cash, LTT), there is certainly more than that to chose from.  Here is a quick, off the top of my head list of asset classes and sub-classes: -US Stocks: many sub classes and sectors here obviously -Foreign Stocks:  emerging, ...

There's your answer MediumTex. I am not comfortable holding an investment in a taxable account with this degree of volatility. I asked myself whether I was committed to holding the fund if GLD had a similar correction to what SLV has experienced lately. The answer was no. I have no plan at this poi...

The fact is we none of us will ever really know how the PP will perform in the future.  40 years is not really long enough to draw concrete conclusions.  The HBPP seems to be as solid as it comes in terms of protection, but that protection likely comes at a price in terms of growth.  Which is exactl...

As long as the US continues to send dollars overseas to purchase goods, those dollars will continue to come back to the US in for form of treasuries and/or US stock market purchases, IMO.  That is from Harry Browne's radio show and it makes sense to me.  That would more or less give us some sort of ...

The charts do speak for themselves. Even during the late 90's stock boom and gold bust the portfolio did perfectly fine. From a retirement income perspective, what drew me to the portfolio is that I didn't find any long rolling years of negative real returns. Something that many other strategies ca...

Go on Yahoo Finance and do a five year comparison of VWESX (Vanguard long term corporate bond fund) and VUSTX (Vanguard long term treasury fund) and see which you would rather have had in 2008. I'm just using VUSTX for convenience; 30 year treasuries did even better in 2008. Exactly.  In any sort o...

Speculating on Greek stocks takes some very large cojones!!!

I tend to agree with everything that MT just said. I really don't know of a better way to protect your money than the HBPP and still grow it.