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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by mathjak107 » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:09 am

i still have my copy of best laid ... i have it decades . i don't use the pp all the time .. i tend to use it as my variable portfolio taking profits in gold and tlt as they do their rise and fall . been washing and repeating for 30 years now ..

my main portfolio is a core of fidelity funds that change dynamically over time as the big picture changes . it has had excellent results in the 30 plus years i have been doing it .

i sold tlt and gld last week in the nice run up ... it has been sliding back down and perhaps if tlt falls enough today i will add it back ... these 1 to 2% moves at a time generate a lot of money for me each year . there is always something that sends those two up or down very quickly . unlike equities which i tend to sit with , tlt and gld tend to be more about timing the market than time in the market so i like to trade them .

but the book is still an all time favorite ... i sold my craigs book back to amazon but i always kept best laid plans and fail safe investing like they are a collectible .
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by vnatale » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:28 am

frugal wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:35 am
vnatale wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 4:06 pm
frugal wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:05 pm
Hi buddies,

I read Craig's book.

I listen to MP3 of HB.

Why should I read :

1- Fail-safe ...

2- Best Laid...

????

What can we learn more with them?

Thank you so much!

^-^
Because Harry Browne is a great writer!

Fail Safe is a relatively quick read (I read it twice). It will show you where Tex and Craig started their work.

Best Laid is NOT a quick read. It is a long book. But it was amazing how 90% of it is still true 30 years later. With those 30 years of hindsight you can now better appreciate what revelatory book it was.

Vinny
Hi!

For me I think it is better to keep it simple and easy.

If it is long i am afraid it is too complicated.

I think it is time to listen to radio show again.

😊
It is not long because it is complicated. It is long because it is extremely thorough. Just as Tex and Craig were thorough in their own way with their book.

Vinny
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by vnatale » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:30 am

Matthew19 wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:22 am
frugal wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:05 pm
Hi buddies,

I read Craig's book.

I listen to MP3 of HB.

Why should I read :

1- Fail-safe ...

2- Best Laid...

????

What can we learn more with them?

Thank you so much!

^-^
Best Laid should be read to squash all desire to go outside of the PP with the money you cant affordable to lose. It’s insane how that book has kept me from feeling like I’m missing out on market moves anytime a motley fool ad pops up. I just roll my eyes now. I think if you’re not fully bought into the PP with Fail Safe, read best laid, or else you’ll second guess yourself along the way and start tinkering.
As I think I have already written if I could go back in time I WOULD have read that book when it came out 30+ years ago and I WOULD have scrupulously have followed it since then. Although I cannot complain where I currently am at I would have been MUCH better off having followed his advice.

Vinny
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by frugal » Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:49 pm

Yes Vinny...

The MP3 talk about the same no?

Thank you mate.
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Post by vnatale » Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:51 pm

frugal wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:49 pm
Yes Vinny...

The MP3 talk about the same no?

Thank you mate.
I've listened to about the first six or eight of his shows.

I prefer to read rather than listen. And, the book is far more in depth than how much he says on the radio shows.

It just depends how deeply you want to go into things.

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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by mathjak107 » Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:04 am

mathjak107 wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:09 am
i still have my copy of best laid ... i have it decades . i don't use the pp all the time .. i tend to use it as my variable portfolio taking profits in gold and tlt as they do their rise and fall . been washing and repeating for 30 years now ..

my main portfolio is a core of fidelity funds that change dynamically over time as the big picture changes . it has had excellent results in the 30 plus years i have been doing it .

i sold tlt and gld last week in the nice run up ... it has been sliding back down and perhaps if tlt falls enough today i will add it back ... these 1 to 2% moves at a time generate a lot of money for me each year . there is always something that sends those two up or down very quickly . unlike equities which i tend to sit with , tlt and gld tend to be more about timing the market than time in the market so i like to trade them .

but the book is still an all time favorite ... i sold my craigs book back to amazon but i always kept best laid plans and fail safe investing like they are a collectible .

phew!!!! since I sold about a week ago my holdings in TLT AND GLD fell back about 10, 000 dollars in value as of this mornings premarket . if it stays down today I will buy back what I had and pocket the difference … boy that did not take long at all . I had a buy order in yesterday for TLT at 138.50 and it never hit … it is way below that In the pre market so I guess I lucked out . TLT and gld are plunging today premarket . so by today I may be back in the pp ready to wash and repeat again .….
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by sophie » Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:07 am

Yes definitely read Best Laid Plans!

It is an outstanding and very thorough debunking of just about every strategy ever used to try to beat the market: momentum, moving average signals, guru predictions etc. By the time you get through it, you'll become naturally suspicious every time you hear someone say "I have a foolproof strategy to increase your returns..."

It cured me of feeling like I needed to have a VP. The only one I've had in the past few years is Lending Club, and that was only a small amount that I put in for a test. Good thing, because the test failed miserably (as many of you warned it would). I finally got the last of my dollars out of the account just yesterday, so today I am officially completely VP-free. Whoo hoo!
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by vnatale » Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:28 pm

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Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:07 am
Yes definitely read Best Laid Plans!

It is an outstanding and very thorough debunking of just about every strategy ever used to try to beat the market: momentum, moving average signals, guru predictions etc. By the time you get through it, you'll become naturally suspicious every time you hear someone say "I have a foolproof strategy to increase your returns..."

It cured me of feeling like I needed to have a VP. The only one I've had in the past few years is Lending Club, and that was only a small amount that I put in for a test. Good thing, because the test failed miserably (as many of you warned it would). I finally got the last of my dollars out of the account just yesterday, so today I am officially completely VP-free. Whoo hoo!
Thank you for this. For when I FINALLY convert to Permanent Portfolio I had no desires to create a Variable Portfolio. What you wrote just reinforces that!

Vinny
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by frugal » Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:06 pm

Matthew19 wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:22 am
frugal wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:05 pm
Hi buddies,

I read Craig's book.

I listen to MP3 of HB.

Why should I read :

1- Fail-safe ...

2- Best Laid...

????

What can we learn more with them?

Thank you so much!

^-^
Best Laid should be read to squash all desire to go outside of the PP with the money you cant affordable to lose. It’s insane how that book has kept me from feeling like I’m missing out on market moves anytime a motley fool ad pops up. I just roll my eyes now. I think if you’re not fully bought into the PP with Fail Safe, read best laid, or else you’ll second guess yourself along the way and start tinkering.
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the english is easy to understand or it is hard for a foreigner?
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by frugal » Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:18 pm

sophie wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:07 am
Yes definitely read Best Laid Plans!

It is an outstanding and very thorough debunking of just about every strategy ever used to try to beat the market: momentum, moving average signals, guru predictions etc. By the time you get through it, you'll become naturally suspicious every time you hear someone say "I have a foolproof strategy to increase your returns..."

It cured me of feeling like I needed to have a VP. The only one I've had in the past few years is Lending Club, and that was only a small amount that I put in for a test. Good thing, because the test failed miserably (as many of you warned it would). I finally got the last of my dollars out of the account just yesterday, so today I am officially completely VP-free. Whoo hoo!
Hi

:)

I am 100% in PP

we dont need to take risks

Craig's book, money show and this forum convinced me !

Hug
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Post by vnatale » Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:25 pm

frugal wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:18 pm
sophie wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:07 am
Yes definitely read Best Laid Plans!

It is an outstanding and very thorough debunking of just about every strategy ever used to try to beat the market: momentum, moving average signals, guru predictions etc. By the time you get through it, you'll become naturally suspicious every time you hear someone say "I have a foolproof strategy to increase your returns..."

It cured me of feeling like I needed to have a VP. The only one I've had in the past few years is Lending Club, and that was only a small amount that I put in for a test. Good thing, because the test failed miserably (as many of you warned it would). I finally got the last of my dollars out of the account just yesterday, so today I am officially completely VP-free. Whoo hoo!
Hi

:)

I am 100% in PP

we dont need to take risks

Craig's book, money show and this forum convinced me !

Hug
Then you seem to be all set and in the right direction. The book would then only be for either someone who loves to read or just cannot get enough of Harry Browne's writings.

I also read this one by him: https://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedo ... l_huc_item

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

It made me feel much about myself in my choices of doing what pleases me rather than what others do.

Vinny
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Re: Read the Permanent Portfoilio Bible?

Post by frugal » Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:54 am

Hi friends

So you are convencing me to buy all HB books!

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Post by vnatale » Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:32 am

frugal wrote:
Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:54 am
Hi friends

So you are convencing me to buy all HB books!

😀
NOT the outcome I expected! I was not in my usual heavy duty evangelical mode for whatever I'm doing and was trying to respect your position.

Vinny
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