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06-11-2008, 09:06 AM
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OK, I couldn't stand it any more and just bought more VTSAX and VFWIX. I planned to do this on Friday, but The Dow is down another 135 points and it's only 11 AM Eastern time and I smell bargains!
(Consequently you can expect the market to rally SIGNIFICANTLY this afternoon, topping 13,000 before close - - such has been my luck at these attempts at minor market timing.)
Anybody else thinking of buying equities today?
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06-11-2008, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Want2retire
OK, I couldn't stand it any more and just bought more VTSAX and VFWIX. I planned to do this on Friday, but The Dow is down another 135 points and it's only 11 AM Eastern time and I smell bargains!
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You might want to schedule a doctor's appointment to have your testosterone level checked...
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06-11-2008, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Want2retire
(Consequently you can expect the market to rally SIGNIFICANTLY this afternoon, topping 13,000 before close - - such has been my luck at these attempts at minor market timing.)
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Want2retire, on behalf of all of us, thanks!
Coach
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06-11-2008, 09:23 AM
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How low Dow??
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06-11-2008, 09:34 AM
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ROFL!!! Well gee, now that I'm finally 60, heaven knows what happens with hormones at this advanced age.
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Originally Posted by Coach
Want2retire, on behalf of all of us, thanks!
Coach
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You're quite welcome! Next I had better wash my car. We need rain.
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Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger
How low Dow??
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You mean, "How low Dow now, brown cow?"
Hot dog! It's down 162 by now. Guess the BIG rally will be after lunch.
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06-11-2008, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Want2retire
Anybody else thinking of buying equities today?
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Surely you gest. If I bought today, the market would surely drop 1000 points. In all seriousness, I'm glad some might see this as a buying opportunity. Maybe I will eventually get out without having to kiss that creature brewer posted.
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06-11-2008, 09:53 AM
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Actually... I have bought equities today too (gotta stay busy at work). Bought LYG.
Jim
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06-11-2008, 09:57 AM
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Nope... my taxables buy every Friday and my 401(k) buys the 15th and 1st and my wife's 401(k) buys every two weeks. Anything aside from that would involve wiring money out of our emergency fund and that seems like too much of a bother.
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06-11-2008, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Dawg52
Surely you gest. If I bought today, the market would surely drop 1000 points. In all seriousness, I'm glad some might see this as a buying opportunity. Maybe I will eventually get out without having to kiss that creature brewer posted.
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Ew, that was some ugly creature!  I hope you don't have to kiss it either (for any reason!).
That's another possibility. Instead of the Dow exceeding 13,000 this afternoon, it could drop to 8000 tomorrow and for the forseeable future. Oh well. It seems I continually have to teach myself not to market-time by means of repeated bad experiences at it.
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Originally Posted by jimnjana
Actually... I have bought equities today too (gotta stay busy at work). Bought LYG.
Jim
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Great!! Let's hope we have some good luck with this.
I have been DCA'ing into VTSAX and VFWIX on the 14th of each month, so really I just jumped the gun a little. Couldn't help it!
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Originally Posted by Marquette
Nope... my taxables buy every Friday and my 401(k) buys the 15th and 1st and my wife's 401(k) buys every two weeks. Anything aside from that would involve wiring money out of our emergency fund and that seems like too much of a bother.
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I probably should have arranged automatic investing like you did, to avoid the above temptations....
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06-11-2008, 12:46 PM
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No vanguard emerging markets?
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06-11-2008, 01:09 PM
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No vanguard emerging markets?
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I do have a little VEIEX, but only about 1-2% of my portfolio.  That is money that I have designated my "play money" to follow my whims and invest as I please.  VEIEX has been doing terribly lately, though.
What I bought today is as designated in my plan, which I thrashed out last winter. I am looking forward to finding out about the foreign tax credits with VFWIX, which will be about 13% of my portfolio once I am fully invested.
20% VTSAX Total Stock Market
13% VFWIX FTSE All-World Ex-US
2% play (mostly VEIEX Emerging Markets right now)
30% VWIAX Wellesley
35% bonds/MM
OK, it's 3:22 Eastern Time and we are down 178 points! Let's hear it for a huge rally tomorrow... !!
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06-11-2008, 03:53 PM
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I already (semi prematurely) blew through my cash to stock allocations for the market -20% and -25% points a while back. So I really should wait for -30% or so before adding more equities. I might be able to make a few shifts without worrying about taxes if things continue down. It gives me something to do at least.
The foreign tax credit stuff was pretty irritating if you had more than $600 in foreign taxes. I had to dig up how much foreign income my several international funds had. That info was posted about a week before 4/15, and I had to go directly to fund company sites to get it. I guess income had to be detailed by country before 2007, so at least I missed that.
Dan
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06-11-2008, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger
How low Dow??
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Are you talking Chinese?
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06-11-2008, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Animorph
I already (semi prematurely) blew through my cash to stock allocations for the market -20% and -25% points a while back. So I really should wait for -30% or so before adding more equities. I might be able to make a few shifts without worrying about taxes if things continue down. It gives me something to do at least.
The foreign tax credit stuff was pretty irritating if you had more than $600 in foreign taxes. I had to dig up how much foreign income my several international funds had. That info was posted about a week before 4/15, and I had to go directly to fund company sites to get it. I guess income had to be detailed by country before 2007, so at least I missed that.
Dan
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Thanks for the heads up, Dan! I'll be on the alert to find out the details next spring.
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06-11-2008, 04:26 PM
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Thanks for reminding me, Want2Retire! I need to make another ROTH contribution and today looks like a good day!
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06-11-2008, 04:40 PM
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W2R, I am buying too...
I bought US large caps and International equities with an emphasis on Emerging Markets on Monday (scheduled VCA into taxable), and I rebalanced the wife's 401K today (I put to work a lot of the cash which had been accumulating in the account for the past 6 months). I also bought some more VG REITs and VG Emerging Markets this afternoon (non scheduled VCA into taxable) using a chunk of our emergency fund (oops!)... Overall I added about 10% to my EM position since Monday.
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06-11-2008, 05:24 PM
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Thanks for reminding me, Want2Retire! I need to make another ROTH contribution and today looks like a good day!
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Sure does!  I didn't realize that you were still working, like me! For some reason I thought you were already retired. I guess next year will be my last Roth contribution.
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Originally Posted by FIREdreamer
W2R, I am buying too...
I bought US large caps and International equities with an emphasis on Emerging Markets on Monday (scheduled VCA into taxable), and I rebalanced the wife's 401K today (I put to work a lot of the cash which had been accumulating in the account for the past 6 months). I also bought some more VG REITs and VG Emerging Markets this afternoon (non scheduled VCA into taxable) using a chunk of our emergency fund (oops!)... Overall I added about 10% to my EM position since Monday.
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Emerging Markets have taken a beating lately, so I think it was probably a really good time to buy.
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06-12-2008, 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Want2retire
OK, I couldn't stand it any more and just bought more VTSAX and VFWIX. .....Anybody else thinking of buying equities today?
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WTR,
I bought today too -- VTSMX. Some day I will qualify for the VTSAX Admiral shares!
Every quarter I upload the excess from my credit union savings account to my Vanguard MM account and then I buy on the next available dip. That recent 400 point drop followed by today's 200 point drop was my trigger to make this latest buy. I do stress somewhat over thoughts on the market dropping even more the next day. Thank goodness most of my investing is via DCA into my 401k so the bulk of my retirement investing is automatic.
--Linney
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06-12-2008, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Linney
WTR,
I bought today too -- VTSMX. Some day I will qualify for the VTSAX Admiral shares!
Every quarter I upload the excess from my credit union savings account to my Vanguard MM account and then I buy on the next available dip. That recent 400 point drop followed by today's 200 point drop was my trigger to make this latest buy. I do stress somewhat over thoughts on the market dropping even more the next day. Thank goodness most of my investing is via DCA into my 401k so the bulk of my retirement investing is automatic.
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Good move to buy Total Stock Market yesterday! Or at least, it seemed so to me. Guess we will see.
My 401K (TSP) contributions are automatic, every two weeks, as well. I could set up automatic contributions to my taxable account, but haven't. As for the market, my crystal ball tells me that today it might not move much and tomorrow it might go down again (or up?)  If my crystal ball were working, my accounts would be much larger than they are at present.
At least I think I did better this time than I did in March, when I invested late on a day when the market was down. On the following day while my investment was being processed, the market surged markedly. So, I was unknowingly buying high.
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06-12-2008, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Linney
WTR,
I bought today too -- VTSMX. Some day I will qualify for the VTSAX Admiral shares!
Every quarter I upload the excess from my credit union savings account to my Vanguard MM account and then I buy on the next available dip. That recent 400 point drop followed by today's 200 point drop was my trigger to make this latest buy. I do stress somewhat over thoughts on the market dropping even more the next day. Thank goodness most of my investing is via DCA into my 401k so the bulk of my retirement investing is automatic.
--Linney
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Linney,
We put in a buy for VTSMX yesterday, too (we buy once every 2 or 3 weeks). However, the transaction won't actually go through until the end of today. Our luck (as has happenned in the past) is that there will be a big rally today. Did you put your buy in yesterday or the day before? To my knowledge, with Vanguard, you can't put a buy in and get it to go through that same day. There is always a delay. This is one of the things that does really frustrate me with Vanguard. Oh well, I know, shouldn't be trying to time the market, right?
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