Not as bad as I thought.....

[doneat54]

I pull all account balances the first of every month and plug them into a spreadsheet so I can track the growth of the portfolio. Of course after yesterday's DOW hit, I dreaded it, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. We are about a 50/50 AA and my one account with mostly bond funds actually increased over the January, and negated a lot of the other drops this week. Overall value only down $8k for the month. I was expecting worse. I guess that is how a "balanced portfolio" should work!?

[Dash man]

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Originally Posted by doneat54 I pull all account balances the first of every month and plug them into a spreadsheet so I can track the growth of the portfolio. Of course after yesterday's DOW hit, I dreaded it, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. We are about a 50/50 AA and my one account with mostly bond funds actually increased over the January, and negated a lot of the other drops this week. Overall value only down $8k for the month. I was expecting worse. I guess that is how a "balanced portfolio" should work!?

Yes, the hit on the market’s Friday were offset by the gains of AMZN in my portfolio. But who knows what Monday will bring.

[sengsational]

This is the kind of discussion we're having over here:

http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ad-101479.html