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snarlyjack wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:32 am
This would help the Bogleheads &
the forum. The forum could grow quite substantially.

So that big sucking sound putting the FIRE bloggers out of business would be bogleheads.org? Is that really what they want? They would not be able to FIRE then.

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Nobody can really tell you how much your tinkering will hurt or help your returns. All of the posts in this thread have no data to back up their claims except for nedsaid. There are studies that show that some people who trade more do not do as well that trade less, too. But then it only takes one e...

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I have total US stock and total international stock in everything: traditional IRA and Roth IRA and even 401(k) and taxable. Never was a big deal for me.

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A Chinese shopping mall has been called ... the most expensive display advertising in history. The problem is there has been overinvestment. When I went to China, I noticed that the malls did not seem to actually be *selling* much? Chinese tend to go find a local trader and haggle over the price, I...

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boardwalkmike wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:18 pm
why pick mutual funds over etf's

Because you have anxiety attacks when you submit an ETF order, but not a mutual fund order.

Because you have more control over the price you pay for the ETF shares and that can backfire and kick regret back into your face.

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@Gill, thanks! Will you please let us know if they respond? I guess somebody else can tell us if the article is ever modified.

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You should send e-mail to the address noted in the article. Point them to IRS Publication 550.

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Get her a job modeling and posing for photographs for advertisements.

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Try it right now. Contribute $5 in the next few minutes. What happened?

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Yes, you can just continue to contribute to your settlement account as normal.

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If you aren't committed to REITs ... and it certainly seems that you are not ... then you should sell and take your losses now. Otherwise, you would be buying more without a second thought. I think the money you have in REITs will be more productive elsewhere at this time. If VNQ has a RBD, then I w...

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The really simple answer is you don't compare them to each other.

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And on the non-covered shares, I believe that is a thing with all brokerages. Both TDAmeritrade and WellsTrade have always had perfect records of our non-covered shares, so that we could use Specific Identification. Both would report accurate cost basis to me for non-covered shares, but would also ...

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And here is a link to another very good discussion of Vanguard PAS:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=236085

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The article concludes

A better use of historical performance relegates it to a secondary role, the primary focus being an a priori analysis of a manager’s investment process (security selection and trading strategy).

Does that hint that a particular trading strategy can have benefits?

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And TLH is a dual edge sword. It makes sense if you are going to buy and hold and leave the proceeds to your heirs just pulling the dividends in retirement. It makes less sense, in part depending on your current tax rate relative to your retirement tax rate, because by doing the TLH you essentially...

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A fluff piece on financial planners in the NYTimes today:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/smar ... anner.html

Unfortunately, it does not inform one about all the problems with financial planners. They ain't all good guys and gals.

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Couples don't have to travel together. They can go to different places and at different times. One can stay home. I am going camping in the Sierras soon by myself. My spouse will stay home and walk the dog. My spouse went to Cuba with her girlfriends last month. I stayed home and walked the dog. But...

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You would pay 22% of any money put into the taxable account first before you would buy one single share of VTI. With the 401(k), you would not pay that 22% at first.

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I cannot judge intuitive for you. I can write that I am undaunted when it comes to teaching myself things and figuring things out for myself.

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Trade Architect at TDAmeritrade.

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Maybe you don't want to do that because putting small-cap value in a Roth has the greatest potential for loss.

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You can get your cash balance easily to less than the value of one (1) share of SPTM. Example: Submit orders for 1000, 1000, 1000 shares. Then for 100 shares. Then for 20 shares. When they all execute you will know how much cash you have left. Then for whatever remaining cash you have that will get ...

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It doesn't cost you any commission to buy, so you can submit many orders to buy if you wanted. The order size could be 100, 200, 500, 1000 or whatever shares. You can submit some limit orders and some market orders. You can have many orders waiting to execute. You can even modify or cancel orders th...

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Factor1 wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:11 pm
Should I be looking at auction or secondary?

Is this where I should be?

You can look at both auction and secondary. If you ask Morgan Stanley for suggestions, they can give you the CUSIP numbers and you can just plug those into the search box at Vanguard and Fidelity to see the story.

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Don't buy from this dealer.

They know you have bought from them twice before. They know what kind of deal they gave you. They are probably basing their prices on the past deals they gave you.

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Our kids got licenses soon enough and from then on were always driving when I was in the car, so that they had plenty of practice before going off to college where they did not have cars, but drove their friends' cars. Even now, I make them drive whenever they come home because I want them to always...

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Well, I have ridden my bike faster than the speed of light: I started at the top of a steep hill and just took off. I pedaled faster and faster in the top gear, but the real trick was I reached over to my left wrist where my analog watch was and pulled the stem out. Then I turned the minute hand bac...

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I think that if I bought the shares on the last day of the year, then I would probably have no tax liability that year created by those shares.

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Yes, I saw 4 week T-bills yesterday at 1.66% but I believe those come with some costs, right? No costs at a few places, but I would be surprised if Morgan Stanley was one of those places. Nevertheless, T-bills are probably the best place if the money must be kept at Morgan Stanley. You can easily c...

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Relax. In the early 1970's I went to a public high school that I found out later was nationally ranked. I would not have known it at the time. I had many AP course (yes, in the 1970s) and eventually went on to get a PhD. It was located in the South. We live in a public school system that is outstand...

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I would not sell the 500 index at a gain in taxable in order to make any rebalancing moves unless the gain was not taxed because you are in a very low income tax bracket and won't pay state income taxes on it. Whether you stop adding to it and buy Total US Stock Market Index fund going forward will ...

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It is probably a fund that some people use when they transfer assets to Vanguard and then DCA into their longer term investments. It plays to the mental accounting and behavioral finance aspects of rational investors.

Full disclosure: I have no money in this fund.

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I wonder what the use of the word "our" actually means here. Do both spouses work and have plans?

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The yield aka interest-rate aka return paid by the stable value will most certainly not be stable at 2.52%. It will vary over time.

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BIL is also pretty much like a money market fund.

But 3-4 years out? I would use equities myself such as VTI.

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Why would you be suspicious of using 1-3 month T-bills for a money market fund. I can't think of a safer MMF than one that exclusively used such instruments. Would you rather they used commercial paper like the Reserve Fund? I guess I wasn't too clear. I am concerned about bait-and-switch. T-bills ...

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One is a multinational mid-cap growth fund and the other is a US large-cap blend fund. Cue: Mel Lindauer.

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Calling all car shopper experts :moneybag ! I'm in the market for a certified 2015 Camry and need to gauge the right price to base my negotiations with the dealer. I used the Kelly Blue Book estimate but it only gives me a range and for the car that I want, the dealer's price is within the KBB rang...

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Wellesley performance has been underwhelming this year, compared to other funds IN IT'S CATEGORY. It's currently in the bottom 7% of all "Allocation - 30-50% equity" funds YTD according to M*. Like many close to ER, I have sizable investments in Wellesley and have always considered it my "sleep wel...

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No cash. I still hate cash. But I don't mind something like 1-3 month T bills for some market timing purposes.

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Oh, another thought: If you try to negotiate to a low price and never close the deal, then you can pretty well know that your low price is probably too low. So I would suggest that you have many failures and not be bothered by them at all. Then you will really know what price to negotiate to.

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I will construct a scenario where one can have a good wash sale, but avoiding the wash sale would hurt you. 1. Buy Vanguard Total Stock Market last year and pay $140 a share for VTI. 2. VTI drops to $100 a share, so you have choice: a. Buy more to rebalance, or b. Tax--loss harvest and buy VV (large...

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Yes, yes, and sort-of yes. You will have a wash sale for the one share. The One unsold share will have its cost basis adjusted. So if you sold that one share a day (or anytime later), then it will have a different line on your Form 1040 Schedule D / Form 8949 where any gain/loss with the new basis w...

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Seems like this article is about 30 to 60 days late. I already own T-bills and "floaters" and short-term bonds. Since total US bond has dropped in price, I now prefer to buy it than the things mentioned in the Schwab article. If we chart the "growth of" Total US Bond (BND), T-bills (BIL), floaters (...

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At 22%, you are in a tax bracket where tax-exempt muni bonds don't make much sense for you. So BND is probably OK if you insist on having bonds in taxable. You can always save on taxes by finding something that pays out a lower interest or dividend, but do you really want to have less money after ta...

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We had college expenses over many years with our kids. We considered all our money as eligible to pay for college, so we did NOT have an asset allocation separate for each child. For instance, when our oldest was in college, we were happy to have quite a lot of equities. That was terrible around 200...

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I look across the nation for the actual sales prices of similar cars. So for a Certified pre-owned car, I usually start offering at least 20% below asking price and expect to pay lower than 15% off original asking price of the used car at a dealer. And watch out that they show the car with one set o...

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I am OK with Vanguard Prime Money Market, but not necessarily with MM funds from other vendors. Furthermore, I am suspicious of other vendors who might use 1-3 month T-bills for their MM funds nowadays, but might switch to something else to bail out another part of the company in a crisis. But at th...

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We went for about 10 days in September. It snowed one day. I think September will be great. After Labor Day when school has started, the tourists are mostly the Nearly Dead and the Newly Wed. Forest fires could close huge sections of the Park and also Roads. We stayed in Jackson, Colter Bay, and in ...

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