Gyroscopic Investing

Every 90 days, we're injecting our quarterly distributions (from our corp) into our PP.  Plus, whatever excess cash we may have. So... we've been able to keep each asset class pretty much equal/level.  Yet, our Schwab account shows the cost basis-- for example, Gold-- at +12%. 

I can safely ignore this number (the cost basis) right?

It's irrelevant to balancing the PP-- as long as we keep injecting additional money to keep it at 4x25% ... right?

Thanks.
- Adam

I also continually add to the lagging asset, but pool in cash to minimize expenses when adding to assets that have a transaction fee.  I have been in the PP from late October 2009, and have not yet needed to sell any of the volatile assets, keeping things in range with new contributions.

Adam, I think you can ignore it.  I do something similar with my 401k brokerage link account - every 2 weeks I buy the lagging asset, unless there is a commission involved in which case I pool it in cash for a while.

The only number that matters to me is the current value of each asset.  I have a Google Docs spreadsheet that tells me what percentage each one is, based on the latest quotes, and it's pretty easy to pick which one to buy more of.