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01-30-2016, 09:44 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Poway, CA
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down 1.5% as of yesterday's close. Hmm..........
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01-30-2016, 10:15 AM
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#62
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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01-30-2016, 10:24 AM
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#63
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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-3.7% vs. -5.1% for the S&P.
Considering my 60% stock I should be down less (I have little bonds), about -3.1%, but international and some of the "keepsake" material stocks still dragged down the rest.
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01-30-2016, 10:27 AM
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#64
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 442
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(-)5.45% ouch!
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01-30-2016, 10:35 AM
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#65
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Alberta/Ontario/ Arizona
Posts: 3,393
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Down about half of one percent. Not so bad.
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01-30-2016, 10:36 AM
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#66
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 475
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- 3.7%
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01-30-2016, 10:38 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 862
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Taxable portfolio ( income stocks ) down -0.05%
Retirement portfolio ( Common stocks, bonds, MF ) down -1.2%
Overall performance in January down -0.7% approx.
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01-30-2016, 10:41 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 3,375
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I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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01-30-2016, 11:46 AM
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#69
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
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Originally Posted by gerntz
I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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The short termers have a daily report thread going on.
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01-30-2016, 03:07 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Redmond
Posts: 892
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Originally Posted by gerntz
I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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I for one am very short term focused with my FIRE date of Feb 13. Our move to a balance of VG Wellington and Wellesley funds in mid December due to the pending Fire date really paid off for us. We are down a 1.26% in the major IRA accounts which hold these funds. My 401K in the mix (total invested) we are a down a total of 1.86% net of contributions. Mostly due to the high weighting in these two VG funds which offset the losses in the indexed funds held in the 401K. These index funds had losses of 5% net of contributions.
Bonds did OK so this makes sense since the IRA funds held 53% equities, 47% bonds. Thanks to those with the many posts on balancing into retirement with these types of funds. 
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01-30-2016, 03:12 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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A boy showed his parents his school report card which was full of D grades. When his parents scolded him, he replied "Why are you so short-term oriented?".
The idea of checking up your portfolio is not to trade daily, but to understand your holdings, and know why your portfolio differs from the market performance. I always examine my holdings, whether they beat or trail the market, even though I trade much less than MF managers of even funds like Wellesley or Wellington.
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01-30-2016, 04:38 PM
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#72
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Minneapolis
Posts: 4,455
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-1.88% - bummer.
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01-30-2016, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Southern Cal
Posts: 4,032
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I'm sure it's negative. But I don't have the exact number.
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01-30-2016, 09:43 PM
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#74
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Bay Area
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Originally Posted by gerntz
I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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I don't see that at all.
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01-30-2016, 11:15 PM
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#75
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Pasadena CA
Posts: 3,346
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YTD -3.72%
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01-31-2016, 07:05 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Originally Posted by gerntz
I can't believe people here are so short-term focused.
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Very few people here are short term focused. Every time someone comes along and says "the market sucks right now. Im scared Im going to lose all my money. What are you guys changing to protect yourselves?" The mass answer is always "nothing".
This thread is nothing but a light hearted score keeping thread.
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01-31-2016, 02:02 PM
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#77
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 9,343
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Quote:
Originally Posted by utrecht
Very few people here are short term focused. Every time someone comes along and says "the market sucks right now. Im scared Im going to lose all my money. What are you guys changing to protect yourselves?" The mass answer is always "nothing".
This thread is nothing but a light hearted score keeping thread.
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Plus it is one of the few threads that actually has different answers instead of repeated ones over and over. Its always "original" every day. 
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01-31-2016, 02:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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And misery loves company. I love it when somebody admits to losing more than I do.
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01-31-2016, 02:11 PM
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#79
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2009
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
And misery loves company. I love it when somebody admits to losing more than I do.
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If you had only put all your money in utility preferreds when I did, you would be so bored looking at your portfolio, you would never look but only on the dividend dump days... Of course your portfolio is probably too huge to push it all in like a skinny portfolio such as mine can! If only I had sold ALL of my Total Stock Index instead of just keeping 10% in it... Its amazing how just 10% of something can drag you down a bit.
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01-31-2016, 02:12 PM
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Eh, but I have posted more than once that life can be boring, and the market gives me some excitement. 
Also, I like the challenge as I try to conquer my greed and fear.
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