Don't forget that stocks are a leading indicator. They start turning up long before the data changes. There is no guarantee you'll be able to buy back at a better price... or that you would have the balls to actually push the buy button if you actually did get the opportunity. Personally, in your shoes I would take it as a learning lesson. You learned that you are taking more risk than your risk tolerance. But wait out the recovery first, then make the changes. It will recover eventually, likely quicker than you currently believe possible. Remember in March 2009 everyone thought that it still had further to go as well. The word "stock" was considered a 4 letter word. It was the very peak of the bearishness. It took many years for people to start to believe in the market again. All those people that capitulated and went to cash missed out on the recovery.turbo8214 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:14 pmIt seems to be the beginning of the crisis with ways to go yet. Someone in the administration had a baseball game analogy and said we're in the second inning or something to that affect.pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:31 pmAt this point it's already too late to sell stocks, imo. Most of the bad news is already priced in.turbo8214 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:13 pmThat sounds like a good strategy.I Shrugged wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:43 pm If you have the psychological wherewithal to buy stocks and wait what could be years, I think once the DJIA is <15,000, it's time to think about buying. If it actually happens to get down to 10,000 or less, back up the truck and fill it with stocks. If you can afford it, and if you think you can sit on them for a good long time. If we get to those levels, I will be buying.
But this is a different discussion than staying the course at these prices.
Let me be clear. I love the PP.
But there are one or two times in an investor's life where there will be a panic or value buying opportunity that makes it worth setting aside the slow and steady allocation. HB would say that's for the variable portfolio. I agree to a point. I would buy within the upper bounds of the PP bands, maybe a bit more. The stronger I believed in the value, the more I would want to be buying. If 15,000 comes and you don't believe, don't be buying.
My 401 is still in a 60/40 due to limited options. Have thought about cashing out now and then buying back in when it hits 15k. I don't see how it does not go down to 15k with all the bad news.
I just figured why not sell now to stop the bleeding and then buy back in once it is down further.
Something told me I should have sold a few weeks ago but I kept thinking "stay the course". At the time, it seemed like the market could also go back up. I don't think anyone expected this much of the economy to be shut down.
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Two very good points.pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:23 pmDon't forget that stocks are a leading indicator. They start turning up long before the data changes. There is no guarantee you'll be able to buy back at a better price... or that you would have the balls to actually push the buy button if you actually did get the opportunity.turbo8214 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:14 pmIt seems to be the beginning of the crisis with ways to go yet. Someone in the administration had a baseball game analogy and said we're in the second inning or something to that affect.pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:31 pmAt this point it's already too late to sell stocks, imo. Most of the bad news is already priced in.turbo8214 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:13 pmThat sounds like a good strategy.I Shrugged wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:43 pm If you have the psychological wherewithal to buy stocks and wait what could be years, I think once the DJIA is <15,000, it's time to think about buying. If it actually happens to get down to 10,000 or less, back up the truck and fill it with stocks. If you can afford it, and if you think you can sit on them for a good long time. If we get to those levels, I will be buying.
But this is a different discussion than staying the course at these prices.
Let me be clear. I love the PP.
But there are one or two times in an investor's life where there will be a panic or value buying opportunity that makes it worth setting aside the slow and steady allocation. HB would say that's for the variable portfolio. I agree to a point. I would buy within the upper bounds of the PP bands, maybe a bit more. The stronger I believed in the value, the more I would want to be buying. If 15,000 comes and you don't believe, don't be buying.
My 401 is still in a 60/40 due to limited options. Have thought about cashing out now and then buying back in when it hits 15k. I don't see how it does not go down to 15k with all the bad news.
I just figured why not sell now to stop the bleeding and then buy back in once it is down further.
Something told me I should have sold a few weeks ago but I kept thinking "stay the course". At the time, it seemed like the market could also go back up. I don't think anyone expected this much of the economy to be shut down.
It's looking like the trend is down, but you never know, there is a chance that it could be close to the bottom.
I learned in 2008 not to go 100% equities. The 401 is 60-40, which is working out better (only 20% drop instead of 40+) but still don't like to see 1/4 obliterated in such a short period of time. It took a long time to build that up!
Or perhaps I need to work on increasing the risk tolerance. It's not like I will be able to touch that money anytime soon anyway. With that being said, I think I will Permanent portfolio it eventually.
I was one of them....and said I wouldn't get back into the market after that. In hindsight, I should have just left it alone.pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:23 pmBut wait out the recovery first, then make the changes. It will recover eventually, likely quicker than you currently believe possible. Remember in March 2009 everyone thought that it still had further to go as well. The word "stock" was considered a 4 letter word. It was the very peak of the bearishness. It took many years for people to start to believe in the market again. All those people that capitulated and went to cash missed out on the recovery.
This month eerily reminds me of March 2009.
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This month really reminds me of October 2008 personally, the way stocks, bonds, and gold are trading. I'm just waiting for the Lehman announcement, something like TSLA going under when it can't get the credit it needs to keep the lights on.turbo8214 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:50 pmOr perhaps I need to work on increasing the risk tolerance. It's not like I will be able to touch that money anytime soon anyway. With that being said, I think I will Permanent portfolio it eventually.
I was one of them....and said I wouldn't get back into the market after that. In hindsight, I should have just left it alone.pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:23 pmBut wait out the recovery first, then make the changes. It will recover eventually, likely quicker than you currently believe possible. Remember in March 2009 everyone thought that it still had further to go as well. The word "stock" was considered a 4 letter word. It was the very peak of the bearishness. It took many years for people to start to believe in the market again. All those people that capitulated and went to cash missed out on the recovery.
This month eerily reminds me of March 2009.
As far as "increasing risk tolerance" of the PP have you looked at the Golden Butterfly? This is probably the most popular portfolio here, it's basically a PP with a 20% VP to small cap value.
Golden Butterfly: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/golden-butterfly/
PP: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/p ... portfolio/
You can also spice it up a bit more by cutting down on the cash. For instance I have 5% of the cash in REIT's currently. Tyler has 10% of the cash in REIT's. You could substitute all or part of the cash (or the small cap value bucket) for anything else you desire as well like emerging markets, international, trend following, commodities, whatever. There's some flexibility in the framework so long as you don't get too carried away.
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Isn't that $1,000 per person in the household? Or, have things already gone beyond what I last heard? In my entire life I don't think I've lived though such rapid change.Dieter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:22 pmYup, that would help a lot.
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Yes, I do. I just do not understand finances well and PP is the only thing I can do more or less comfortably
I did not rebalance for long time (was within 15/35 bands)
At this point my 4x25 HBPP looks like.
Stocks 21.1%
LTT 24.3%
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Gold 24.8%
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Uber and Lyft are ignoring, so not impacting who I think are the targets.
I think some interpretations are that if you hire a band for a club or festival, you have to make them employees. Or the band has to incorporate somehow.
If you are non-profit running square, Contra, etc, dance and hire caller and band for that, you have to make them employees (BTW, folks who run such dances are volunteers. No one has an HR department. Send out IRS paperwork if pay folks over $500).
Or DJs AFAIK.
I really don't know enough details, except many friends who do his who were getting a lot less sure to AB5 even before Coronavirus.
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I had no idea what this AB5 was and was encountering it for this first time. Now that I see what it is it ONLY applies to California? As an accountant, I'd like to deal with all of these people becoming employees! Bands are truly not employees but ARE contractors. You hire them for a job but you do not oversee them in any way like you do an employee or control how they do things. Plus, they are hired by so many other entities.Dieter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:20 pmUber and Lyft are ignoring, so not impacting who I think are the targets.
I think some interpretations are that if you hire a band for a club or festival, you have to make them employees. Or the band has to incorporate somehow.
If you are non-profit running square, Contra, etc, dance and hire caller and band for that, you have to make them employees (BTW, folks who run such dances are volunteers. No one has an HR department. Send out IRS paperwork if pay folks over $500).
Or DJs AFAIK.
I really don't know enough details, except many friends who do his who were getting a lot less sure to AB5 even before Coronavirus.
I'm now reading about it here. Absolutely wild!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... l_5_(2019)
Who here lives in California?
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Yes, AB5 is a Caifornia law.
And, um, I live in California
And, um, I live in California
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I've heard it a few times. But if California was a separate nation it's economy would rank where in the world?
And, what it the liberal / conservative split in voters in the state?
In may ways far more liberal than even Massachusetts.
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Fifth largest maybe?
Coasts are liberal. North and east (more rural) are not.
State political position as pretty much all Democrat now (but have had moderate Republican governor's relatively recently).
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Arnold S was a Republican, correct! Were you there when he was governor? If so, what was your evaluation of him? He had two terms? Love him as an actor. Just saw a great one of him the other night that was in total contrast to all his other roles. He'd lost his wife and daughter in a plane crash in this movie. No action hero in this one.Dieter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:44 pmFifth largest maybe?
Coasts are liberal. North and east (more rural) are not.
State political position as pretty much all Democrat now (but have had moderate Republican governor's relatively recently).
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If it was legal for him to be President he would have run.vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:50 pm
Arnold S was a Republican, correct! Were you there when he was governor? If so, what was your evaluation of him? He had two terms? Love him as an actor. Just saw a great one of him the other night that was in total contrast to all his other roles. He'd lost his wife and daughter in a plane crash in this movie. No action hero in this one.
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Honestly, I think we would have won, too.
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If so, I think he may have been the first Republican (maybe) presidential candidate I would have voted for if it was him or Biden.Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:13 amIf it was legal for him to be President he would have run.vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:50 pm
Arnold S was a Republican, correct! Were you there when he was governor? If so, what was your evaluation of him? He had two terms? Love him as an actor. Just saw a great one of him the other night that was in total contrast to all his other roles. He'd lost his wife and daughter in a plane crash in this movie. No action hero in this one.
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Honestly, I think we would have won, too.
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True. October is when the bottom dropped out. I just remember March being the bottom and it was just a weird feeling.
Thanks for the recommendation, I will check it out!pmward wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:59 pmAs far as "increasing risk tolerance" of the PP have you looked at the Golden Butterfly? This is probably the most popular portfolio here, it's basically a PP with a 20% VP to small cap value.
Golden Butterfly: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/golden-butterfly/
PP: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/p ... portfolio/
You can also spice it up a bit more by cutting down on the cash. For instance I have 5% of the cash in REIT's currently. Tyler has 10% of the cash in REIT's. You could substitute all or part of the cash (or the small cap value bucket) for anything else you desire as well like emerging markets, international, trend following, commodities, whatever. There's some flexibility in the framework so long as you don't get too carried away.