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- Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Red state Blue state
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12561
Re: Red state Blue state
My brother lives in Bend. I've only visited. Is it expensive as compared to California coastal cities, or only as compared to say Toledo?
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:07 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Red state Blue state
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12561
Re: Red state Blue state
Bend, Oregon is a nice, smallish, hip sort of town.
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:04 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6926
Re: Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
What I tell myself to make myself comfortable with bank storage is that the gold is for re-establishing myself after the panic is over, which may be months down the road, when the banks presumably will have to re-open. The gold won't be much use during the panic itself. What you want during the pani...
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:01 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Slowly bleeding
- Replies: 67
- Views: 42539
Re: Slowly bleeding
There was a controversial guy who used to post on here whose portfolio was basically 50% stocks and 50% gold. He claimed it was less volatile than one might imagine. If you have a fairly long time horizon to ride out some volatility, you might consider that portfolio, since you seem to want to avoid...
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Fed Seeks Aggressive LImit on Wall Street Commodity Holdings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1014
Fed Seeks Aggressive LImit on Wall Street Commodity Holdings
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... s-itfye706
Would this proposed regulatory change have any effect on small investors like me?
Would this proposed regulatory change have any effect on small investors like me?
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:13 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
- Replies: 117
- Views: 48255
Re: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
Hey InsuranceGuy,
How often do you have to check in on your portfolio with your new strategy? Is it monthly?
How often do you have to check in on your portfolio with your new strategy? Is it monthly?
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:20 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
- Replies: 571
- Views: 337220
Re: 20% annual returns over 40 years...interested?
Kbg, I apologize, because I think I've asked this before, but could you please tell me again. If someone wanted to run one of these portfolios, like the 75/8/8/8 or the 50/17/17/17, how often would they need to check in on things and potentially do a re-balance? Is this something you have to check o...
- Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:04 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25550
Re: The Olympics
I guess i'm nobody then, because i care about brazil. One thing they do really well is music. I say that any culture that can produce music that beautiful can't be all bad. As for the games, count me in as a new rugby fan. What an intense sport. Much better than american football, which i gave up fo...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:43 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Golden Butterfly Portfolio
- Replies: 539
- Views: 366109
Re: Golden Butterfly Portfolio
Try comparing say 4-year trailing average real returns for the two portfolios with and without gold. I'll bet you'll find that the one with gold is consistently as good or better.
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 3:19 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
- Replies: 54
- Views: 42751
Re: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
I like your PP2 for two reasons: 1. 25% gold just feels like too much to me for an asset that just sits there. I've played around with enough backtesting to see that you don't need that much gold to still get a good diversification effect. 15 - 20% seems about right for my liking. 2. With interest r...
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:23 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
- Replies: 54
- Views: 42751
Re: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
Do you think the Golden Butterfly violates this rule by having 40% in stocks split 20% to large cap and 20% to small value?ochotona wrote: Just as a general rule, 40% in any one asset is too much. It really doesn't matter what that asset is. Swensen maintains that any one class should be between 5%-30%.
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 11:39 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
- Replies: 54
- Views: 42751
Re: Permanent Portfolio vs. All-Weather - an in-depth analysis
With interest rates where they are now, you'd better have an awfully good crystal ball if you are seriously considering putting 40% of your dough in LTTs. I'm going the other way myself toward the Golden Butterfly approach. 20% in cash, gold, and LTTs seems just about right to me.
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:31 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Things about the PP that do not make sense to me
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20139
Re: Things about the PP that do not make sense to me
Try your model with 1/3 in each of stocks, long bonds, and gold. You'll probably like what you see. Although keeping some percentage in cash, maybe 10%, can help with rebalancing. Unfortunately this approach will give you a longer duration in bonds/cash which won't be pretty when rates rise.
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:18 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Oh Come On
- Replies: 109
- Views: 44429
Re: Oh Come On
I hold some electronic gold and some physical gold. I'm endeavoring to reduce the former and increase the latter. I agree that if nuclear war hits, gold probably won't be very useful for a while. But, I think it could be tremendously useful in re-establishing one's financial life after the dust has ...
- Mon May 16, 2016 5:28 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Are all calories equal? lyle McDonald
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2059
Re: Are all calories equal? lyle McDonald
For me, one big difference between different types of calories is that some types of calories make me feel satisfied, and other types of calories (usually the less healthy ones) just make me want to eat more.
- Mon May 09, 2016 10:34 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: To the telescope!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2163
Re: To the telescope!
Bedraggled, what kind of telescope(s) do you have?
I have a few, but little time to use them. As for today's Mercury transit, it is cloudy here right now. Astronomy can be a bit frustrating, because it seems that the weather doesn't cooperate very often.
I have a few, but little time to use them. As for today's Mercury transit, it is cloudy here right now. Astronomy can be a bit frustrating, because it seems that the weather doesn't cooperate very often.
- Sun May 08, 2016 6:55 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Anybody looked at 3 year REAL Returns!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2685
Re: Anybody looked at 3 year REAL Returns!
Agreed 100%. And not just a 3-year focus, but a 3-year focus on real returns, as you suggested. That's where the PP differentiates itself from a lot of portfolios.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:42 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: God's Anointed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7656
Re: God's Anointed
I think this thread is talking about two different kinds of wackos, and it might be helpful to differentiate them (although several commenters have already touched on several of these points): 1. The first wacko believes in a living God who works actively in people's lives, even today in the 21st c...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: God's Anointed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7656
Re: God's Anointed
Who said it was less whacko? They are two sides of the same crazy coin.
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:28 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: God's Anointed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7656
Re: God's Anointed
What does this mean: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's"? I am a born-again Christian, having received the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues just like in the Bible. I have no interest in getting involved in politics, because it's just a distraction from what i...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:44 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
- Replies: 117
- Views: 48255
Re: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
So, the buy/sell signal has to repeat itself two months in a row before you act?
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:08 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
- Replies: 117
- Views: 48255
Re: SCV+Momemtum Permanent Portfolio
InsuranceGuy, can you give us some more details? It sounds like you are testing a monthly checking strategy. Is it a 12-month lookback period each month? You mentioned some consistency tests to avoid whipsawing. What are those tests?
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:59 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Back to the Simple, Dumb PP?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14721
Re: Back to the Simple, Dumb PP?
How often have you had to rebalance since 2012, or whenever you started?
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:41 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Back to the Simple, Dumb PP?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14721
Re: Back to the Simple, Dumb PP?
I'm not trying to make a cult out of it, but if there were a consistently better plan than the pp, Harry Browne seems like he'd be smart enough to find it and sell it. I mean, people expect this stuff to be hard and to be complex, and he probably could have sold a lot more copies if the strategy ha...
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Permanent portfolio accumulation and capital addition
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16571
Re: Permanent portfolio accumulation and capital addition
I like it. I imagine it will be a bit more volatile than the PP, but with greater reward in the long run.
I'm doing something similar in my 401k, because it has a cheap bond index fund available, plus I feel stupid having a big chunk of cash in a long-term vehicle when I'm nowhere near retirement.
I'm doing something similar in my 401k, because it has a cheap bond index fund available, plus I feel stupid having a big chunk of cash in a long-term vehicle when I'm nowhere near retirement.