If only open carry were legal in Dallas, citizens would have stopped this immediately.

Kbg wrote:For the record...I believe people should do what is most suited to them as they see fit with their assets.

I believe everyone should send me their gold for safekeeping

Someone' s probably done the work on the physical gold (in the average case) -- check insurance rates

Yeah, I understand the value of cash. Right now I'm only doing this 2x PP as a small percentage of my portfolio anyways. But if I had 75% cash I would be tempted to overleverage

since it's a 3x daily fund, does the intraday really matter (any more than a 1x fund)? I like the idea of a 1x PP with 3x ETFs, but I'm not sure I could sit on all that cash. Right now, I sit on 50% cash (so a 2x total exposure) and even with that I'm thinking "man, if only I had that 50% inves...

me write good too

Not to dampen the enthusiasm, but since I went all in with the PP about 7 years ago, the only sector that's still in the red is gold. I'm very happy that it's rising, of course, but it's still 2% below the break even point. Did you at least hit a rebalance? I've been accumilulatig the lagging asset...

Earlier, I sold some phys and picked up CEF for tax loss harvesting. I've had it more than a month, but held on because it was performing fine and had a decent discount to NAV. Recently, the discount has closed by a few percent (still no premium). Should I just switch back? During brexit, it lagged ...

Man I hope I hit a rebalance band soon. It's getting up there, but all the volatile assets are up a similar amount since my last rebalance. Likely "cash" will hit the lower band if these trends continue

"if you fail to pay bail or appear for court, a judge will issue a warrant to render you “arrestable on sight” in the future." Well, yeah. This is a bad thing? Over a traffic ticket or other minorly revenue generators? Of course, you think people should be able to skip their court dates b...

"if you fail to pay bail or appear for court, a judge will issue a warrant to render you “arrestable on sight” in the future."

Well, yeah. This is a bad thing?

Curlew, What is that a chart of? You cropped off the legend. presumably his portfolio. looks similar to mine Curlew, ever notice an effect in google finance that makes it seem like you are making new highs when you know you really aren't? For example, one day will close at 100 for me, and then the ...

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I'll pay you $5 per bleeding eyeball, but I want to keep the eyeball.

I've written quite a bit about leveraged ETFs in the 20% returns thread. Agree with the comments on margin. I would spend sometime looking at 2xETF costs compared with margin as well as look at the ETF prospectus to see what the return components are...they may include interest on cash as part of t...

Interest rates rising will increase your cost of borrowing at the same time long bonds and stocks tank. Read the interactive brokers page on maintenance margins and understand all the calculations, and plug it into a spreadsheet to model how much of a drop you can experience before a margin call. Th...

My IRR so far in the PP has been 5.7%, so I actually think I'm due another 10% gain before I start worrying about "outperformance"

Pointedstick wrote: What's wrong with current audio technology? Serious question, I have no idea.

Temporal blur causes earbleeds

#pooping

We really need to implement all three suggestions:

Twitter
Facebook
Tech novelists backup server

That way, we have four total modes of communication.  If at any time on or two are going down, hopefully they are compensated by the other 2-3

dualstow wrote:

dragoncar wrote: What's special about 1280?

Nothing. It's just kind of a nicely abrupt surge.

Wrong.  1+2+8+0=11.  1*1=1.  Illuminati has one eye

Illuminati confirmed

Also the logarithmic scale on the X axis in MG's graph. It is interesting to see how many more hours the average U.S. worker puts in compared to EU countries.  The productivity/GDP output is not the only yardstick though.  Clearly that hasn't led to improvements in quality of life, or at least not ...

What's special about 1280?

Yawn. There was a small quake centered near Vancouver Island a few months ago.  So I don't know if there will be many stress-relieving quakes, one big one, a bunch of middlin' ones, etc. I know for a fact that there are going to be tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, etc. with loss of life this year NOT...

Yikes... Need a gdp per hour worked chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked Top 10: Rank   Country         GDP (PPP) per hour 2013 1         Norway           75.18 2         Luxembourg   73.22 3         United States 67.32 4         Belgium           6...