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Too soon?
EDIT: I added some Berkshire shares.
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My value ETF (which has an incidental banking concentration) has tanked much more than my other equity ETFs, so I’ve rebalanced into it.

So yes!
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Smarter than the market pricing are we
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I bought a tiny bit of credit suisse earlier.
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dualstow wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:37 pm
I bought a tiny bit of credit suisse earlier.


What percentage of your total investing portfolio have you put into each of these two recent bank investments?

When I was younger I had a lot of investments I wanted to make. But it seemed like I did not have enough investment money for them to produce anything substantial. Now that I am older it is the opposite. A lot of those investments in the light of my total investment money would be small -- therefore not much there to get excited about.
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The Credit Suisse is like 1/1000. I will either add more nibbles over time or get rid of it.
The Berkshire is something I already had shares in, and that’s like 3% of pp+vp.
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dualstow wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:54 pm
The Credit Suisse is like 1/1000. I will either add more nibbles over time or get rid of it.
The Berkshire is something I already had shares in, and that’s like 3% of pp+vp.


So if Credit Suisse doubled today the effect on your overall portfolio would be about a 0.1% increase?
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It’s small enough that I never think about that in terms of the overall. It’s just fun to sell things at a profit sometimes.
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dualstow wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:30 am
It’s small enough that I never think about that in terms of the overall. It’s just fun to sell things at a profit sometimes.


Thanks. Better understand your motivation. I do the same in other ways.
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dualstow wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:37 pm
I bought a tiny bit of credit suisse earlier.


How do you think this will affect your investment?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... tion=alert

ECONOMY
Two Swiss banking giants combine to quell growing global bank crisis
UBS will take over beleaguered Credit Suisse, capping more than a week of speculation over the Swiss giant’s fate
By Abha Bhattarai and Rachel Siegel
Updated March 19, 2023 at 3:17 p.m. EDT|Published March 19, 2023 at 2:53 p.m. EDT
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vnatale wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:35 pm
dualstow wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:37 pm I bought a tiny bit of credit suisse earlier.
How do you think this will affect your investment?
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I see a share is now worth less than a dollar.
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dualstow wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:58 am
vnatale wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:35 pm
dualstow wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:37 pm
I bought a tiny bit of credit suisse earlier.


How do you think this will affect your investment?
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I see a share is now worth less than a dollar.


What was the share price at the time of your purchase?

Good thing hour purchase was less than 1/1,000th of your portfolio!
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More like $2 O0
Yeah, glad i didn’t put 10K in!
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