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Stock Thread 2018

I compare the fees, expenses, and trading costs society pays to invest in the U.S. stock market with an estimate of what would be paid if everyone invested passively. Averaging over 1980 to 2006, I find investors spend 0.67% of the aggregate value of the market each year searching for superior returns. Society's capitalized cost of price discovery is at least 10% of the current market cap. Under reasonable assumptions, the typical investor would increase his average annual return by 67 basis points over the 1980 to 2006 period

We’ve heard that dozens of times in this thread or others similar.
 
Yeah. Mainly posted for his analysis vof market value ETFs like spy.
 
GE was looking tempting at 15. Glad I didn’t jump in a month or two ago. Can’t credit planning, just lazy. :p
 

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Who wouldn't want the 500 biggest companies in their portfolio? But it would not be smart to hold just one type of ETF. You should know the composition of what it is you are holding.

I stick to common sense. I stick to this principle: stay diversified and do what works for me. I also have an ETF that mimics small cap Russell 2000 (IWM) and another that mimics mip cap (SWMCX).

The price of both IWM and SPY have risen 11% in a yr.

We can have a good solid year this year or the market may dive without any advance notice (we're at the mercy of the movers and shakers of this world and the reactionary nature of the market), but whatever happens I know I've made good choices for myself and my future retirement. Holding nothing exotic, not get paranoid or greedy, just keeping rational.

The news may explain for the volatility in the markets these past 2 months but I believe it is just the nature of how the stock market is set up and who the participants are. The volatility in my eyes has everything to do with institutional investors and algorithms. Something sets off a sell in the market, banks and insurance companies can sell at high volumes at a heartbeat and transfer their funds elsewhere, whereas Plain Jane and Average Joe sit there frozen and indecisive about what to do, like a deer getting caught in the headlights. But sometimes it is the best thing to do is to just wait and see and do a reality check about your own tolerance for risk, to consider rebalancing ...
 
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The divestment of GE Capital is really f-in with their balance sheet.
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That and they held onto some mystery meat debt that is not revealed but looks pretty scary.

I actually did a nice winning trade on GE a couple months ago, but I still don't trust it.
 
Geezzz the market is crazy. Very volatile. The swing from day to day is nerve wrecking.
 
Yeah... Todays swing did not go in my favor, missed the inverse opportunity while I was outside building a fence.
 
Today was a buy day for me and I figured I would do some full disclosure and see what you guys thought of my portfolio.

Maybe help me identify some gaps? Or at least give you guys some fodder to make fun of me.

This is my personal investment account, not my 401k that is managed through JP Morgan.

DGRO
LUV
SCHD
SDY
SPY
VOO
VTI
XWEB

Most of these have been discussed here but looking to see what you guys would score this. LUV is the one stand out, and it's just because I spend so much money with them. :laughing

I don't have any energy / utility so I am thinking that's what I need to add next.

What do you guys think?
 
I've been burnt too many times on energy and utilities to have any faith there. The price of oil is so very very volatile that I have gotten burnt more than I like.

That's a nice tight portfolio. I don't like the LUV because the industry is so volatile and stressed.
 
Little bit of tariff blowback, not too bad. I'm fully out of the game for now.
 
Anybody talking about buying the dip today? /snark

I'm irritated that the news is more interested in tweets than discussing China's new tariffs on US agricultural goods.

I wonder how much the Dow would drop if China instead decided to sell a big chunk of their US treasuries.
 
I put in an order for SCHF. Figured I’d throw in an internationaletf into the group. It ranked high on the lists I found.
 
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