View Poll Results: What percentage are you down so far?
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Down 0% to -10%
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33.86% |
Down -11% to -20%
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49.05% |
Down -21% to -30%
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15.82% |
Down -31% or higher
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1.27% |
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03-28-2020, 07:56 AM
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#21
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: City
Posts: 10,351
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I don't know and I don't care. When things calm down I will probably check. Why do something I know will be unpleasant when I know I will be taking no action anyway?
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03-28-2020, 08:03 AM
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#22
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,722
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Up, down give or take $60K here and there. Got taxes out of the way! Self employment taxes killing us.
Apologize, I know this sounds flip ^^. I stopped evaluating YTD, day to day and since all time high/low. I'm looking at 3 yr., 5 yr portfolio performance. These fluctuations are so massive from day to day, I just don't see the point.
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03-28-2020, 08:27 AM
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#23
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 1,708
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Down 28% YTD on 100% stock portfolio. Looking forward to quarterly 'excess dividend' purchase next Wednesday. About $15K this time (bigger than normal, got back $$$ for cancelled cruises and airline tickets).
From my peak mid-Feb to my low (so far) last Monday I was down 49%.
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03-28-2020, 08:33 AM
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#24
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 25,349
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Down 10.5% so far, and my nominally 50/50 is down to 43/57.
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03-28-2020, 08:37 AM
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#25
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 442
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-16% with 70/25/5 AA
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03-28-2020, 08:43 AM
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#26
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 575
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according to Fidelity, returns are:
1-Yr - +8.87%
YTD - (-11.87%)
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03-28-2020, 08:49 AM
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#27
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: vinton
Posts: 128
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Down around 14% since this started. Some funds (S&P 500) funds hit hard. My AA is about 45% stock, 55% bonds.
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03-28-2020, 08:52 AM
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#28
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 889
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
I'm confused, which is nothing unusual. If you are only including your "taxable account" in your numbers that really isn't telling us "what percentage you are down so far."
What is your YTD performance for your total portfolio?
FWIW, I'm at -7.7% YTD, and that number includes all our investable assets.
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So the reason I don't count in the 401k/Roth is because that money is essentially useless to me. I don't pay any attention to my 401k/Roth IRA because I also have a pension (18+ years vested so far). By the time I can touch the 401k/Roth I'll also be able to take payments from the pension. The pension alone will be able to cover my retirement when I am 60+. So my 401k/Roth are irrelevant. I still max them out (401k up to match and max out the Roth), but I'll probably just end up donating all that money.
The pension alone will pay more money than I actually spend. The pension will pay more than 50% of my income and I live off of less than 50% of my income now. My w-2 income is $73k and I live off around $30k. My taxable account dividends are $29k now, plus whatever I make in capital gains. The other year I made close to around $100k in short term capital gains. That was painful at tax time.
I only pay attention to my taxable account because I might actually use it. I'm 43. If I do retire early it will be entirely off of the taxable account. I won't touch the 401k/Roth and when I am 60+ I'll have the pension.
During this crisis I haven't looked at my 401k/Roth. I go years without looking at them. The 401k is invested in a global balanced fund using indexs. My Roth IRA is in Vanguard's Managed Payout fund which is being renamed at some point (I have forgotten now what they are going to call it).
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03-28-2020, 08:59 AM
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#29
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: DFW
Posts: 7,586
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
Down 10.5% so far, and my nominally 50/50 is down to 43/57.
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I seem to be tracking you closely. Also - 10.5%
Not sure this is good or bad
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03-28-2020, 08:59 AM
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#30
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 645
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Down 17% from the high. I raised cash just before a cruise in early Feb (I was out of contact and wanted to get rid of most individual stocks). That was about 8% and amounts to 18 months of spending (not allowing for any reductions in our burn rate). I guess I was lucky on the timing.
Currently about 65% equities, 12% cash, 25% bonds.
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03-28-2020, 08:59 AM
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#31
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,021
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ESRwannabe
So the reason I don't count in the 401k/Roth is because that money is essentially useless to me.
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Send it to me, I'll even pick up the wire transfer charges.
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03-28-2020, 09:07 AM
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#32
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,708
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What a crazy couple of weeks. I’ve never seen fixed income lose so much or gain so much in such a short period of time.
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What percentage are you down so far?
03-28-2020, 09:24 AM
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#33
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 659
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What percentage are you down so far?
Up 2.5% following the ‘permanent portfolio’ strategy of 25% each stocks, gold, long bonds and cash.
But stocks are still slightly ahead over 10 years. I just have low volatility.
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03-28-2020, 09:26 AM
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#34
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,525
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Down 7.5% YTD (all investable assets) on a nominal 50/50 - currently 46/54 but still within my wide rebalance band.
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03-28-2020, 09:27 AM
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#35
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 6,506
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Don't know. Will check sometime June or July.
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03-28-2020, 09:36 AM
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#36
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 2,816
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I didn't calculate a percentage, but on Monday, I calculated that I was down about 5 years of retirement spending, despite a conservative AA.
After a temporary pop this week, I'm probably down about 4 years of retirement spending.
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03-28-2020, 09:41 AM
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#37
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 889
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I figured someone would offer to make that sacrifice.
I shouldn't say its completely useless. Its part of my sleep-well-at-night and no-job-stress assets.
I'm really not sure if I will even use the taxable account money. If my employer will continue giving me the option to work from home after this crisis, I could see myself working another 17 years or more.
My job is pretty cool because I get paid to work on expensive IT infrastructure which is something I would want to tinker with as a hobby if it wasn't my job. Basically I have a multi-million dollar "lab" to play with.
The pension eliminated my saving for retirement stress from day one. The taxable savings have eliminated my work stress as the assets have grown in size. The only downside to work now is annoying things, like why do I have to work in the office every day when the work I do at the office that day is on stuff that is remotely located in Amazon Web Services a couple of states away?
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03-28-2020, 09:45 AM
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#38
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,985
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Down less than 10%. It is tough to figure since I have no faith in the high market values Fido is assigning to my brokered CD's. Since CDs represent about half my portfolio i just use the par value. Anyway I always keep them to maturity.
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03-28-2020, 09:45 AM
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#39
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,176
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As of Friday down about 9%. Started the year roughly 35/42/23, and took out about 1% from the stock allocation in January to "celebrate" last years gains, and I have not spend that entirely. Still, with a pension buffer, a lot of cash, and a low SWR, I am fortunate.
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03-28-2020, 09:50 AM
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#40
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,021
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ESRwannabe
The only downside to work now is annoying things, like why do I have to work in the office every day when the work I do at the office that day is on stuff that is remotely located in Amazon Web Services a couple of states away?
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Ah, the BS bucket is beginning to fill...
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