They have a lot of really good discussions over there and I have learned a lot from some of the posters. It just seems like a crowded and relatively unimaginative place with a few loud voices that don't seem capable of revising their views no matter how much evidence is presented to them. There are...

What I find hard to understand is the concept of gold having no real return: If I buy an ounce of gold for $800  and sell it for $1600 is the additional $800 that I now have real or not?  Saying gold does not produce anything is just not true in my opinion, it can produce an increase in value in my ...

Obviously hah. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. The more experienced PPers on here probably won't have to use this or they'll have much more refined versions of this. I'm still quite new to the PP and I made this for entry-level people that wanted a kickstart to their own investing spreadsheets. I...

Hehe, you made the gold yellow and the cash green, same as I did in my spreadsheet. This looks great! Obviously hah. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. The more experienced PPers on here probably won't have to use this or they'll have much more refined versions of this. I'm still quite new to the PP...

Which ones are better? I currently use TurboTax and would love to get more and pay less!  ;D I use Taxact Is that just due to personal preference or did you have reasonings for using Taxact over TurboTax. Such as Taxact catches deductions that TurboTax doesn't, etc. When I experimented with differe...

Wow, TaxAct is a ton cheaper. Can it file form 8938 for you too? If so, I'm a convert. If you have a referral code or something, I'd love to throw a kickback your way. Taxact can e file form 8938 for you, that started this past year. I have been a taxact deluxe user for years.. before I experimente...

My total portfolio is PP  I hold approx 1/3 of my Gold in bullion 1oz bars. and the rest GTU.

Pointedstick wrote: Which ones are better? I currently use TurboTax and would love to get more and pay less! 

I use Taxact

I'm wondering if you can do a hybrid approach at all of sending in your tax returns by e file for everything else and stating something in the e file about the other form. Then, mailing in the 8621 form and anything else monetary-wise to pay for any capital gains, etc. I'm pretty sure the answer is...

Many thanks for the knowledge. I guess I've just gotten used to e file with TurboTax each year. I'm wondering if you can do a hybrid approach at all of sending in your tax returns by e file for everything else and stating something in the e file about the other form. Then, mailing in the 8621 form ...

I remember the first time I read about the PP.  I thought to myself "Whoa, there's no way I could ever do that.  That doesn't even make any sense." The first time I read about the PP it made perfect sense and I knew I wanted to do it, the only thing that slowed me down was that I still lo...

I think this has been touched on before here but I use TurboTax for tax purposes. I read something on here about not being able to e-file if you're having to fill out the form for reclassifying GTU for Long-term Capital Gains? Is this correct? If it is, I might be discouraged a bit from using GTU f...

There is nothing wrong with doing something like a 50%/50% VGLT/EDV allocation within the PP's 25% LT treasury piece. There is, however, the potential here to come up with a solution that is more complicated than the problem, but I don't know why it wouldn't work. When rebalancing the whole portfol...

I really don't think I would mess with any kind of gold fund for gold fund switch in order to avoid the 31 day wash sale requirement. I'm sure lots of people do this sort of thing, and I'm sure that most of them never get caught.  I just don't like this kind of thing myself.  The IRS would almost c...

according to my calculations GTU is trading at a discount (3:28pm wed) about  -1.6% now
spot gold 1561
GTU last trade 57.2

So...hello EDV, welcome to my portfolio. Sophie-- Careful with EDV.  It's good to add it to PRPFX as you described, but if you hold it in a taxable account, make sure you understand the tax ramifications.  An alternative to EDV is to keep some cash handy and try buying the dips.  It's not very scie...

When I first read Fail Safe Investing it made sense to me, my wife also was in total agreement. We knew that the PP was for us. So its simple we follow it, if you don't like it invest how you want. When I found Craig R crawling road site and now this site I also found a place where I feel at home.  ...

Every "expert" that I hear on TV and radio has been saying that LTT's are a reckless and dangerous investment and they have all been wrong. A while back I called in to the Renzy wealth radio show to talk about the PP  he was saying that you should not hold long term bonds, because they we...

Back to the topic: Looking at my 2012 year to date this morning May 15 2012 I am plus 1.46% everyones results should be slightly different depending on last rebalance and individual holdings for example bond holdings. my last rebalance was End of Jan 2011 I hold TLT,VGLT,EDV for Bonds they now =29.2...

This may be a good time to buy some. I am not a big fan of closed ended funds for the gold part of the PP. The premium can severely distort your returns in either direction. On the other hand if your looking to lay down a speculative bet on gold this could be a good time to buy. But I would confine...

GTU (Central Gold Trust of Canada) is a closed-end fund that usually trades at a premium to NAV.  It briefly traded at a discount to NAV this morning, and has been trading at a premium of less than 1% for a couple of days. Is there a better way than using a manual spreadsheet to monitor the NAV and...

When its time to sell what  how much less than spot should i look for 3-5%? have you guys sold back to these online gold shops?  how was the  experience? Buying seems straight forward, but selling makes me uneasy.  sending a box of gold coins worth alot of money back to the online shop. what recour...

My Canadian pp (with some US asset) is down more than 3% since I started in two months ago. I expected some downside risk but not this much in a short period time. :(  I guess it was a good thing I put in only half of my money but it is pretty discouraging and I wonder if I should invest the rest i...

steve, thanks, just filled it with my info, that works nice. Here is another new and stupid question.  I have an automatic investment set up every week going towards our IRA, should I just continue this and divide it among each asset class in my PP and then rebalance once or twice a year? Is that w...

Kitco’s Canadian Allocated Storage program
http://www.kitco.com/cas/

Has anyone looked into this?  What is the best way to store gold for Geographic Diversifcation?