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If you think about it, buying on the way down is the same as buying on the way up-you just start earlier.



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Posts: 358 | Location: NW NJ | Registered: December 07, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The 800 pt plunge was what was hoping to avoid. On well. Should of known since the stupid closure of today, figures. Roll Eyes



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If you're thinking about timing the market now, it shows how bad a concept it is.
 
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Well, SELLING is a bit late but BUYING is not. Could be an opportunity.

I'm 30% cash since Jan'17. Time to start dribbling it in soon.



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My investments are managed by a financial guy that I trust – he’s done well for me. Over the past several days he’s been selling some securities at a loss to offset taxable gains earlier in the year, and replacing them with similar securities.

He’s fee-based, so I don’t pay for trading costs.



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This may be a thread drift...

I'm youngish, trying to be responsible and save for retirement. I'm in it for the long haul, a "set it and forget it if you will".

I opened up a Roth 457 in 2015 and am investing in the default TIAA-CREF Lifecycle 2055 Fund - Institutional Class. I don't know squat about stocks, is this worth a crap or is there another fund/stock/etf/thing I should consider?


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Posts: 260 | Location: DFW, Texas | Registered: June 01, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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slight thread drift, but I thought I'd ask here rather than start another financial thread. If this is too off topic I will though.

Up until 2015 I managed my own investments. My new wife had a Raymond James FP and I reluctantly decided to let him manage my investments too as with a new child, and a new job I was not keeping a very close eye on my funds.

So I turned my IRA and Roth IRA over to him to manage as well as a joint cash fund my wife and I had.

Since 2015 he's made gains of:

9% my IRA
18.5% my Roth
14% wife's IRA
13% wife's Roth
9% Joint

These are actual value changes after fees etc. that I keep track of myself, not those inflated "personal returns" that they like to use.

Obviously I wish all of them were like my Roth, but they're not. My question is for those of you that have been keeping a closer eye than me on the markets the last few years, how is he doing? Should I pull a DJT and tell him "you're fired" Big Grin




 
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To be honest ubo, since 2015 just about anyone including the blind squirrel should have done very well during that time period.

I shrug when members say their FP is the only way o go. Got news guys. They better of made you a lot of money in the last 10 years.



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A dow index fund would be up around 30% from 1/1/15 to today. I'd drop the fp from my Christmas list.


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Looks like the markets could be in for a bit of a rough start tomorrow...
 
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Another day...




"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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