"I lost $25K today"--Does it really feel like that?

[NW-Bound]

I did it during the Great Recession. See: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/how-i-did-during-the-great-recession-72184.html. I shall try again.

 

[NW-Bound]

OK, here we go. Today, my winning streak against Wellington ends.

My stocks up 1.44% and my MFs up 1.22% vs S&P 1.83%.

Total portfolio up 0.85% vs. Wellington 1.00%.

 

[ejman]

I determined long ago that if I just did a 50/50 Wellesley/ Wellington portfolio with occasional rebalancing I would have done better than all the turning and twisting and slicing and dicing and pretzelizing I've done over the years. But what's the fun in that?

 

[NW-Bound]

May I suggest just a bit of a leveraged ETF, bull or bear depending on your mood, to add spice to life? They move at 3x the speed of their underlying index, and some indices may move at 2x the speed of the S&P. Oh là là!

You can eat something as benign as jalapeno with a Scoville rating of 4,000, or you can just nibble on habanero (100,000+ SHU), or the ultimate California Reaper topping out at 2,000,000 Scoville rating.

 

[aja8888]

May I suggest just a bit of a leveraged ETF, bull or bear depending on your mood, to add spice to life? They move at 3x the speed of their underlying index, and some indices may move at 2x the speed of the S&P. Oh là là!

You can eat something as benign as jalapeno with a Scoville rating of 4,000, or you can just nibble on habanero (100,000+ SHU), or the ultimate California Reaper topping out at 2,000,000 Scoville rating.

You mean the famous Carolina Reaper?

 

[HFWR]

Seasons don't fear the reaper...

 

[MichaelB]

Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain