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Old 12-19-2014, 01:14 PM   #161
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If I were similarly afflicted, I would make every effort to just check my balance annually.
Daily fluctuations are just noise, and no reason for glee or sadness.
Viewing wealth as "shares owned" or "claims against future revenue" can be just as valid as a dollar amount.
When the "noise" can add up to one yearly expense or, heaven forbid, a decade of expenses, I want to know what's going on. However, I agree that people who have a weak stomach should not look at their account often. I have plenty of relatives who would do a heck of a lot better if they didn't.

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A bear market is an extended period of time during which people who think this time is different sell all their investments to people who understand that this time is never different.
Eh, I can say the same thing about a bubble. In fact, I can say the same thing about any market.

There are always a buyer and a seller in any market. What concerns me is what they think the fair price is. And I want to know what the settled price is, even if I am not part of that transaction. It's just my nosy manner. And if the price is irresistible, I may want to enter into that transaction. I hate to miss out on a good deal, whether buying or selling.
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I'm calling this latest downturn and rebound nothing more than a corrected correction. Very similar to what happened a few months ago.
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Old 12-19-2014, 04:34 PM   #163
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I'm calling this latest downturn and rebound nothing more than a corrected correction. Very similar to what happened a few months ago.
So when it goes down again its an incorrectly corrected correction correct?
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I agree the portfolio value is what it is at any given time. However this value is only meaningful at the time I want to sell. For example if my home goes up to $1 million it means the same to me as if it was only worth $100,000. Shelter, warmth, etc.
If you are generating an $80,000 income on a $2 million portfolio a 20% correction or $400,000 should only feel like a $16,000 per year hit on your income. The short-term volatility is felt when you sell but the longer term probabilities remain unchanged.
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Every so often, to tamper our enthusiasm about equities, we should look at a graph like the one below that I linked in from simplestockinvesting-dot-com. Except for during the secular bull market of 1983-2000, buy-and-holders do not do that well.

For the most recent period of 2000-2013, only people who bought the dips got ahead. These buyers are either younger accumulators with fresh cash, or retirees who rebalance or hold balanced funds that rebalance for them. Buy-and-holders got nowhere.

And look how much investors lost in the period of 1967-1985, even with dividends all reinvested and a WR of 0.

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True enough. But everyone is an expert in his own mind, thus we will believe whatever we want or need to believe.


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Every so often, to tamper our enthusiasm about equities, we should look at a graph like the one below that I linked in from simplestockinvesting-dot-com. Except for during the secular bull market of 1983-2000, buy-and-holders do not do that well.

For the most recent period of 2000-2013, only people who bought the dips got ahead. These buyers are either younger accumulators with fresh cash, or retirees who rebalance or hold balanced funds that rebalance for them. Buy-and-holders got nowhere.

And look how much investors lost in the period of 1967-1985, even with dividends all reinvested and a WR of 0.


Sp500 is a price index, and your graph looks like it may not be total return. Can you confirm it is total return?


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The blue line is price only. The orange line is with all dividends reinvested.

Both are corrected for inflation, as labeled in the chart header.

I quoted the source of this chart in the previous post. One can find many charts like this on the Web. I assume they are all based on the same historical data set.
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True enough. But everyone is an expert in his own mind, thus we will believe whatever we want or need to believe.
I like to have more people believing in stocks. Not that equity is bad as I am still 70% in it.

But as the price goes higher and higher, eventually something good becomes overvalued. I want to be able to bail out before my cohorts.

Yes, I may be a player in the "greater fool" game too, but I do not think that I have a choice. So, the only thing for me to do is to execute properly, when that time comes. Easier said than done, but a guy has got to at least think ahead.
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So when it goes down again its an incorrectly corrected correction correct?

Correct !
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Annualized return of the broader US market ( Wilshire 5000) from 19 Dec 2000 to today (the supposedly flat period when B&H investors made nothing). After inflation and dividends= 3.75% PA. Lessons: Hold a diversified portfolio. Buy and hold can work just fine (I'm virtually certain a Wilshire 5000 B&H investor did much better over this period than the average trader trying to buy on the dips).
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Agreed - not that exciting until we cross 2070.
OK, Aud, we just crossed 2070. What should we do next.
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I was careful to say 2000-2013 instead of 2000 to present, the reason being all the gain from 2000 till present came in the last 2 years.

I do not think the Wilshire 5000 would differ that much from the S&P, but went to Morningstar to look up the performance of the WFIVX Vanguard Wilshire 5000 mutual fund to see for myself. For inflation data, I use data from inflationdata-dot-com.

From 1/1/2000 to 12/18/2014, a $10K deposit grows to $18,014 (dividend reinvested), which is an annualized return of 4.3%. However, that is before inflation, which runs 40% cumulative in that period. The $18K becomes $12.87K after inflation, which is an annualized return of 1.8%/yr.

What is worse is that all that return comes in less than the last 2 years. Up to as late as May 2013, the $10K only grew to $13.8K nominally, which barely matched the cumulative inflation up to that point. In other words, buy-and-hold investors had to wait more than 12 years to break even.
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OK, Aud, we just crossed 2070. What should we do next.
Get ready to make the magic noise . But maybe wait until after Jan 2nd for those of us rebalancing on the first trading day of the year?

I thought today we might have a new closing all-time-high. Intraday high is 2079 something, closing high 2075.4 or thereabouts.
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I was careful to say 2000-2013 instead of 2000 to present, the reason being all the gain from 2000 till present came in the last 2 years.

I do not think the Wilshire 5000 would differ that much from the S&P, but went to Morningstar to look up the performance of the WFIVX Vanguard Wilshire 5000 mutual fund to see for myself. For inflation data, I use data from inflationdata-dot-com.

From 1/1/2000 to 12/18/2014, a $10K deposit grows to $18,014 (dividend reinvested), which is an annualized return of 4.3%. However, that is before inflation, which runs 40% cumulative in that period. The $18K becomes $12.87K after inflation, which is an annualized return of 1.8%/yr.

What is worse is that all that return comes in less than the last 2 years. Up to as late as May 2013, the $10K only grew to $13.8K nominally, which barely matched the cumulative inflation up to that point. In other words, buy-and-hold investors had to wait more than 12 years to break even.

this will be updated for december at months end.

through november real return from 2000 peak was 1.74% dividends reinvested. we picked up a few more fractions of a % in december.

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What would a bond portfolio look like after inflation? That is a better comparison...

You will likely find it worse.
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here you go. i found it up to 2013.
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What would a bond portfolio look like after inflation? That is a better comparison...

You will likely find it worse.
Just a quick check but it looks like 1.783% real for the 10 yr tbill.

http://dqydj.net/treasury-return-calculator/
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Actually, the OP title is exactly right. It was a small correction for a few days (the crash of October) followed by big gains and new records.
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From 1/1/2000 to 12/18/2014, a $10K deposit grows to $18,014 (dividend reinvested), which is an annualized return of 4.3%. However, that is before inflation, which runs 40% cumulative in that period. The $18K becomes $12.87K after inflation, which is an annualized return of 1.8%/yr.
I guess it is subjective, but 1.8% real return during a "flat market" doesn't sound too shabby. And if we compare it to the offered alternative (clever in and out trading to beat those other slothful investors), I think we might be even more satisfied with those returns.
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