Jan 2008 damage poll

[RunningBum]

down 5.6% for January. 70% equities right now.

 

[HFWR]

Down about a 1% ytd yesterday; up about 0.5% as of today.

 

[Retire Soon]

-2.31% YTD

(50% Equities)

 

[unclemick]

Hmmmm - Target Retirement 2015 down 3.6% but my port 85% target and 15% individual stocks show up 0.58%.

A wash handgrenade wise - do I want to go looking at the stocks that went up? - nope.

Plus autodeduct doesn't take out my money for yearly expenses til 2/16 so the divs/interest are still in there.

The stocks are hobby money anyway so I'll go with -3.6% aka Target 2015.

heh heh heh -

 

[donheff]

-4.23 COB yesterday. Should be a little less when today's figures get picked up in the spreadsheet. About 80% equities.

 

[Poundkey]

50/50 here. Down 1.72% as of todays close.

 

[Moemg]

I ended Jan. down .5% . I'm 75% stock .

 

[eridanus]

Hono,

The fairy's gold doesn't count. 12% in ONE MONTH ... come on!

Sorry, someone had to call you on that one.

Over 3 years compounded, that kind of a return can turn $10,000 into about $600,000. In 10 years, he'll be hanging with the Billionaire's club.

 

[Lakedog]

My Roth (which is my only "trading" account) is up 18% due to moving more into financials after the slaughter, but remainder of investments are down just over 1%.

 

[DJRR]

Put me down for -8.31% 100% equities.

 

[sunshine]

down 4.1

 

[bssc]

1/1/08 - 391,546.30
1/31/08 - 375,416.52

Down 4.2%. Very rare for a January. This is an all stock portfolio with no additions. Of course, it was at 443,000 in June 2007. Nature of the market.

 

[Meadbh]

Not looking.

 

[Dude]

-5.42% ROI (Quicken) overall 12/31/07 - 1/31/08

50% in Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 (-5.75% ROI)
45% in Fidelity Freedom 2035 (-6.42% ROI)
5% in employer stock (+7.7% ROI)

Note the 100% indexed target fund fared better than the primarily actively managed target fund, hmmm

 

[megacorp-firee]

down 6.7% from all time portfolio high (sometime in 2007). Was down 8.x% a week ago. 60/40AA

 

[copyright1997reloaded]

As of 1/31/08:
From High -6.5%
YTD: -3.9% (60% equities, 40% Fixed, mixture of funds (401k) and individual holdings/closed end funds in non-tax deferred accounts)
1 Year (1/31/07->1/31/08 ) +3.6%

 

[Gotadimple]

I'm Surprised

Down 1.6% 55 Equities/25 Bonds/20 Cash
Got a nice bounce from RWR (increased by allocation in January -- don't ask it never happens that way)

-- Rita

 

[Spanky]

YTD = -1.85%
stock 55.01% bond 37.86% cash 7.13%

 

[Lsbcal]

Down -1.6% YTD. 55% equities with 34% of that in internationals. TIPS helped a lot but sold them recently.

 

[Bikerdude]

Down 1.25%. 50/50 allocation.

 

[Kate16]

I'm down 4% for January. 82% equity / 18% bonds

Kate

 

[TargaDave]

Not looking.

Same here, no clue. Right now my entire first floor of furniture is stuffed in the garage while I refinish floors in preparation for selling, so more immediate things to worry about. Let the markets gyrate away

 

[Rambler]

Haven't looked at the 401k in ages, so this is just the taxable: AA was about 82% equities/18% MM at the beginning and about 93%/7% at the end of the month (actually closing 1st Feb, didn't check). I thought the drop was a good chance to buy, glad I did...I ended up down 2%, would have been down 3.9% otherwise. I'm not really much into trying to time the market, so I don't do this often, but the equities I bought on the 14th/15th/16th or so are up 17.3% in just a couple weeks.

R

 

[mathjak107]

actively managed portfolio -4.3 etf index mix -6.2

 

[Puzzley]

I'm off about 12% from my high point last August. 100% equities, a little heavy in financials.....