At end of January YTD: 5.79%. It was close to 8% last Friday, before the big drop...
Are we back to despair yet?
End of month already. Time goes by fast.
On market close of 2/28, YTD result is 2.06%.
Just two days ago, it was a lot higher at 4.7%. I "lost" one year of living expenses in two trading days. Isn't volatility wonderful?
Hey you are on pace for 12% yearly....
Wish my 401(k) providers could add it up by then. I usually need to wait til next morning to get previous day's end total.I have to wait until 8:30pm or so for my 401K provider to refresh to today's close. I skipped January due to being out of town. It was looking bright on 1/23, the last time I looked. I think someone said there was a bump after that, though
Or one can look at it this way.
End of Jan: 5.79%. End of Feb: 2.06%. That's -3.73%/month.
10 more months in the year. So, -37.3% left to go?
Wow, a lot of positive numbers for the year. I'm not in the plus column....I'm at -0.6% for the year. Dropped a couple three percent since I looked in late January
Given that total bond (VBTLX) is down -2.10%, and S&P is up +1.81%, a 60/40 mix of the two should give a YTD return of 0.25%.
By the way, BND (Vanguard Total Bond ETF) is down -2.26%, including the dividend on 2/1/18. There's a small mistrack compared to VBTLX above.
When you do not index, anything is possible, outsize gains as well as huge losses.
If you look through the thread, earlier a poster did perhaps 100% Boeing. It's 22% up YTD. And that's on top of huge gain of near 90% last year.
Darn, if I doubled my money like that, I would head to Seattle to buy meself that waterfront home I wanted all my life.
I am a lot more diversified, but with a bit of overweight in semiconductors. And I worked hard in looking for opportunities to write covered call options, as well as buying the dip earlier in Feb. All that work to get meself 2.06% YTD. Yes, I am running a bit more than 70% stock right now.
Compared to negative numbers, my 2.06% YTD is not too shabby. The problem is I may give it all up tomorrow too.
Is the market an interesting game or not? I think it's more like a chess game than Las Vegas.