Actually I am not too surprised by the ratio. I bet you would find that it is not just the PP, but any finance-type blog and the ratio of M/F would be skewed.

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I think the temptation will be to abandon the PP when stocks are posting returns in the high teens while the PP may be in the single digits. IMHO, I think that the mentality going in has to be that the PP has shown itself to be a durable strategy that will work out fine in the long run and with much...

I read the entire thread at bogleheads.  I read the "best-laid" and "fail-safe" books.  I have begun listening  to the radio shows I did the same thing, sans the books, which were ordered today.  I just wish I had discovered this 10 years ago (not sure why I didn't, having voted...

Gold ownership is a funny thing--at first it feels very strange and you wonder if maybe you just did something really dumb.  After owning it a while, though, it's hard to imagine not owning it as part of a balanced portfolio.  Very interesting.  I purchased my first gold coins about a month ago, be...

I am in the process of setting up a PP mostly within a 401K.  I have sold off all but the 25% portion for stocks that will remain in a combination of very low cost S&P500, S&P400, Russell 2000, and EAFE Index funds.  I placed the proceeds in a Short Term Bond Index fund (that approximates th...