Recent content by alaska55

Marko that is a 28% Premium on PTY. the share price is $13.68 and nav is 10.67.

What 2 years are you talking about because PORTFOLIO VISUALIZER shows both down with SCHG slightly down more in 2 years.

Did anybody watch the YT clip? He said worse case was 13% and he doubts it would go there, he was comparing charts from the late 70's and 80's to present day. It would be a idea to watch it before commenting.:facepalm:

Then how come when I go to look at bonds at TD people are selling bonds at a lost.

Amd track record had been so bad the previous Bulldozer cpus were crap no one trusted them to put out anything good. The market didn't know ****. Plus they had a untested CEO,she turned out to be great. You took a flyer and got lucky. I was one of many gamer that was hoping AMD could pull it off...

He's wrong on the dates for AMD Ryzen 1st gen release dates. The Ryzen 7 cpus were released 1st in March 2017 followed by Ryzen 5 and Ryzen3. I bought a Ryzen 5 1600 in June of 2017.

When I look back at the dividend-focused funds, they really don't seem to perform in the way that is described. -ERD50 Well take a look at SCHD. It's neck and neck with VOO (S&P 500), Vti and crushing VT as of April 30th. It get worse for VOO so far in May it's down almost 5% and SCHD down...

Last time I checked your post belongs in Fire and Money. As it says "This is the forum to discuss active vs passive / index investing"

For someone that touted his securities employment you sure have problems with understanding what you read. When a company is shorted at 140% of its float they can't do sh*t. When the price ran up the shorts had to cover plus the high market cap allowed them to sell shares and raise capital...

Passive index funds aren't for retiree. Well what are? I'm down less than 5% on my 2 funds 40/60% equities(SCHD) bonds VGIT Plus I play around with preferred . I went from 60/40 to 40/60 about 18 months ago. If they could lose $6.5 million they must have started with over $10 million. A...

But does he have to tell us how smart he is 3 times a day. " I have thought about it myself, but presently sticking with total world where S&P is around 40%. (BTW the US market is not "the market." Certainly the pros are not sitting at 100% home country bias. Nor are many of us here.)"...

How does someone have time to do anything else while posting 3.75 times a day.

A companies BK has nothing to with a 401k plan. The company does not hold or control the $.

No They haven't lowered the Dividends just seem they payed quite a bit more in the March distributions for some reason. First two distributions of 2019 equaled about .64 cents and 2018 first 2 distribution equaled about .56 cents. Funny 1st person does no research and 2nd person...