Recent content by Radiophilejapan

W2R, I hope you'll get better soon. Improving my health (physical and mental), or at least avoiding further deterioration is one of my main goals for retirement. Reading yours and other members' progress towards it will be a great support to my own efforts. Please, keep up the good work out!

My very late but no less sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to W2R. Anything I say will be a repeat, but I wanted to add my thanks to the lots of members who have gotten inspiration, useful information, and fun reading W2R's posts over the last few years. I will be getting there in a few...

Good article, thanks. Following Larry Swedroes' tips on his book on bonds, I'm mostly in Vanguard short, intermediate, and limited (between intermediate and short) funds. The article goes to show that the soudness of the book's advices hasn't changed since its last revision.

Not really my style, but it is my position today. Short and intermediate term bonds mainly. Some individual and mutual fund tips. Stocks, only company 401K matches. I believe in timing somewhat so I'm waiting for the fundamentals to stabilize before getting back in stocks. My plan is to build a...

This is my dilemma today: Keep working another 2 or 3 years for megacorp to amass enough for a decent SWR, or FiRE rigth away and find something I love to do at a far lower pay but over the rest of my able life. I'd invest a few years of retraining or just reflecting to find the activities with...

I also share a bottle of wine with DW during most dinners - in or out. Booze is generally expensive here, but I found a liquor store that provides me with a decent 10US$ Cabernet, so I spend about $200/mo in wine. Beer is ungodly expensive here, about $14 a six pack, and I drink about 2 of them...

We used our first pool a lot when the kids were small. In our last home we must have used it a dozen times in 10 years. Maintenance was US$45/month with another $100 or so for chlorine shock acouple of times a year. The largest expense was a fence I had to put up around the pool to comply with...

Very funny indeed.

I'm a third into A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Easy to read and so far very good material.

I don't understand of government pensions, but it seems that you'll have a steady lifetime income, you live in a low cost area, have many hobbies, got a DW that supports the decision, by golly, go for it! I'm itching to do the same and all I have are the hobbies.

I second it!

Thanks for the link, Bikerdude. Interesting charts. It seems that the analyst is trying to get confirmation from several indices to support the "breakthrough" event. Those indices are total or partial sub-sets ofS&P500 so there will be a natural strong correlation among them. The Dow suffered...

Firedreamer, congratulations in getting your portfolio to breakeven - a big feat considering the wild rides along the path. I'm not a day trader (was for a few months between jobs long time ago, lost most of my savings - I was sanguine and totally unprepared then), but the pundits say that the...

Welcome colawman! Glad you have had an enjoyable career. Wish you continued success into your second one. My buddy in Florida is a retired NY cop and he does well with his pension, it seems.

And it does add up to 100%. Maybe he is serious! :laugh: