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06-19-2010, 08:29 AM
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painful...
this correction is really painful. here is my story. two main positions:
a, 2007 bot 45k avg @1.2, peak 2.95 2008, low .23 2009, peak 3.25 2010, now 2.2
b, 2008 bot 83k avg@.46, low .03 2009, peak 4.2 2010, now 1.9
still hold it, no ONE share sold. i bumped my head against wall.
here is questions: what's you guys way to take profit? please share...
thx,
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06-19-2010, 09:25 AM
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What correction are you talking about? Bonds are up this year. Stocks are up since early February. We just had a 10% run-up in the last 2 weeks. Total portfolio is up YTD.
There is a very nice rule on when to rebalance your asset alloction:
For asset classes that have a 20% or more weight in your portfolio (i.e. bonds), rebalance when they are up or down more than 5% of your portfolio value.
For asset classes that have less than a 20% weight in your portfolio (i.e. REITs), rebalance when they are up or down more than 25% of their weight.
This is sometimes called the 5/25 rebalancing rule and is most often associated with Larry Swedroe.
Small caps were up about 20% in April, so that's when I rebalanced (did not sell all positions, but just enough to get back into balance). REITs were up about 15% in April as well, so that meant sell some. Two weeks ago, I bought back into REITs. The rules are simple, unemotional, mechanical, and very helpful.
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06-19-2010, 09:27 AM
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My guess is that most folks here "take profits" by periodically rebalancing their portfolio according to some predefined (i.e. non-emotional) strategy. That "takes profits" in that it sells some of what has recently outperformed ("sell high") and buys what is currently "cheaper" because of recent underperformance ("buy low").
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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06-19-2010, 09:39 AM
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do not know bonds. only equity, always 100%. and penny stocks only
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06-19-2010, 09:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by semtex
do not know bonds. only equity, always 100%. and penny stocks only
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This pretty much guarantees that corrections *will* always be painful....
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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06-19-2010, 09:42 AM
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LOL! I applaud you for digging your own grave.
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06-19-2010, 09:44 AM
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You said the above are your two main stock positions, but did not say how much they are in terms of percentage of portfolio.
I myself have no stock position that is more than 5% of portfolio. I do a pretty lousy job of "selling high" and rarely hit the real top. I rode a few down to zero (bankrupt) too. Still, I survived and beat holding the S&P 500. Overall, do I beat Uncle Mick's favorite pffttt Wellesley? Some years I do, some I don't.
But back on your question, usually when I am not too greedy and not trying to time the exact top to sell really really high, I tend to do a lot better.
PS. I hold no penny stocks. At least they weren't when I first bought them!
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06-19-2010, 09:44 AM
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I don't 'take profits' in the classical sense. I am in withdrawal phase and selling of some assets to cover costs not covered by our pensions. In 2009 this came from selling UST stock when it was bought out by MO, 2010 is covered by some IRA withdrawals and selling off gold coins. Also will be selling ibonds but that is to cover sons college costs.2011 is covered by pensions and a stock sale of BWA (sold this year and set funds aside for 2011). So I look at our pension and our 'portfolio' of taxable, tax deferred and tax free accounts and sell off what looks appropriate at the time to keep us in the 25% tax bracket.
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06-19-2010, 09:45 AM
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what's that about? we each have one, sooner or later
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06-19-2010, 10:04 AM
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Now my way to take profit: TA(new high, price/vol) FA(fair value, like PE 10 ~ 15). But not work well. Many times after I sold off, stocks keep the up trend. Worst case, Boom, sold 2.2, then it up to 70+. Only good thing is I did not bet big on it.
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06-19-2010, 10:55 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by semtex
here is questions: what's you guys way to take profit? please share...
thx,
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When I buy individual equities or bonds, I have a "fair value" in mind at whick point I will sell. Sometimes this varies with the environment, such as my holding in CHK may have a sell point that varies with natural gas prices. Bonds are usually easy: buy at a discount and sell when they hit par/call price/spread-based target. And if you do not sell at least they eventually mature and solve the sell issue for you. Equities require more discipline and I think it is crucial to have a sell target in mind when you buy. The sell target might later get adjusted if the fundamentals change, but you need to have one.
But having a valuation target is important because otherwise you may hold through the leap and watch it go back to bing a bargain again. I am still working on improving my sell discipline, but I am getting better. I bought AIZ in late 2008 at 13 bucks and change with the idea that it was really worh triple that. The stock has been getting really close to my sell target without a significant change in the fundamentals, so on Thursday I sold june 37.50 calls on a bit over half my position for a buck a share. I find that covered call writing that gets you (all-in) your target sell price helps a lot with sell discipline.
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06-19-2010, 11:11 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LOL!
There is a very nice rule on when to rebalance your asset alloction:
For asset classes that have a 20% or more weight in your portfolio (i.e. bonds), rebalance when they are up or down more than 5% of your portfolio value.
For asset classes that have less than a 20% weight in your portfolio (i.e. REITs), rebalance when they are up or down more than 25% of their weight.
This is sometimes called the 5/25 rebalancing rule and is most often associated with Larry Swedroe.
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That is an easy rule of thumb and sounds rational. Do you know if it has ever been tested or back-tested?
My sense is that any method that does not depend on speculation, but relies on objective, non-manipulable variables would be equivalent. (such as rebalancing every two ears on a fixed date, every election year, etc.).
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06-19-2010, 11:15 AM
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I become kind of sloppy when one holding got big up, for example, 2 or 3 bagger, for I know hard to lose. but this time really hurts me. the 2 mainly are in the Roths.
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06-19-2010, 11:18 AM
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Quote:
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Maybe when you do take a profit you can buy some capital letters.
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06-19-2010, 11:50 AM
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06-19-2010, 12:14 PM
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I'm really confused. You have two holdings up almost double and quadruple in a couple years, and you feel 'pain'?
And you are asking US for advice??
Oh well, my 2 cents anyhow: When an investment does significantly better (say 2x) than the S&P500 over the same time-frame, I take my profits. I probably got lucky, so why risk it?
Two more pennies, just IMO, but I fail to see how anything qualifies as 'fair value' other than the current bid/ask price. That's where the rubber meets the road. My Dad used to say something like that when someone would tell them how much they put into a car or whatever, so it was 'worth X amount'. He would say, "It's only worth what you can get someone to pay you for it".
-ERD50
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06-19-2010, 12:16 PM
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I rebalance usually once a year, unless things get out of whack (drift) too much before. First, I rebalance within IRAs (have IRAs in each asset class) to minimize taxable events, then later rebalance outside of IRAs if needed.
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06-19-2010, 12:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ERD50
Two more pennies, just IMO, but I fail to see how anything qualifies as 'fair value' other than the current bid/ask price.
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if you are an efficiency/random walk believer, we live in the parallel space
double/tripple is not a rare thing in the penny world. see my position B, it down to 3 cents then up to 4.2 bucks. I have to lose 90+% before the 9+ times up.
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06-19-2010, 12:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ERD50
Two more pennies, just IMO, but I fail to see how anything qualifies as 'fair value' other than the current bid/ask price. That's where the rubber meets the road. My Dad used to say something like that when someone would tell them how much they put into a car or whatever, so it was 'worth X amount'. He would say, "It's only worth what you can get someone to pay you for it".
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You are entitled to your opinon. Personally, I am generally a deep value investor and willing to do significant analytical work to figure out companies/situtations that may be small cap with little or no institutional following. That means I am trying to play in situations where there is market inefficiency and I can buy assets for a significant discount of what a more efficient market might value them. So I will typically come up what I think an "efficient market" valuation would be before I buy anything and use that (possibly with a haircut) as what I think the asset is worth.
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