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I recently changed employers (or more accurately, my previous employer sold my division to a different company) that caused me to have a 401K plan at both my previous employer and new employer. In an effort to simplify things I decided to close my old 401K and add the funds to my new 401K.

I decided to close out the old account shortly before the election, because I thought that there was a non-zero chance of a result that might cause a significant market correction, and if I had to be out of the market for a week or two this was a reasonable time to do it.

So of course, it turns out that the S&P 500 is up about 4% since the Friday before the election - I might add a turn in the market that everyone was able to analyze after the fact, but nobody was predicting.

The moral of the story is - at least as far as the market goes - nobody knows nuthin' about where the market is headed next. Any investment decisions based on where you are "sure" the markets are headed is a fool's game.
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jrbdmb wrote:So of course, it turns out that the S&P 500 is up about 4% since the Friday before the election - I might add a turn in the market that everyone was able to analyze after the fact, but nobody was predicting.
I know of at least one person who was making the prediction. LOL!
But I agree that one cannot predict the future with any certainty. I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
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OMG, stocks are going sideways, what to do, what to do :confused
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I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
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Teague wrote:
I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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livesoft wrote:
jrbdmb wrote:So of course, it turns out that the S&P 500 is up about 4% since the Friday before the election - I might add a turn in the market that everyone was able to analyze after the fact, but nobody was predicting.
I know of at least one person who was making the prediction. LOL!
But I agree that one cannot predict the future with any certainty. I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
Paul Krugman told me to rebalance out of equities on Tuesday night and then corrected himself within the next day or two. I still have whiplash. :oops:

Note: I of course did not actually take Krugman's advice, as a long-time survivor of reading his words.
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Note: I of course did not actually take Krugman's advice
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:OMG, stocks are going sideways, what to do, what to do :confused
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triceratop wrote:
livesoft wrote:
jrbdmb wrote:So of course, it turns out that the S&P 500 is up about 4% since the Friday before the election - I might add a turn in the market that everyone was able to analyze after the fact, but nobody was predicting.
I know of at least one person who was making the prediction. LOL!
But I agree that one cannot predict the future with any certainty. I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
Paul Krugman told me to rebalance out of equities on Tuesday night and then corrected himself within the next day or two. I still have whiplash. :oops:

Note: I of course did not actually take Krugman's advice, as a long-time survivor of reading his words.
The depressing part is that people do take his advice, if only because 'He's got a Nobel prize in economics, he must be smart!11' And then they'll get burned, decide that the market is a casino, and stay all cash or go into high-risk alternative investments.
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Wayson wrote:
triceratop wrote:
livesoft wrote:
jrbdmb wrote:So of course, it turns out that the S&P 500 is up about 4% since the Friday before the election - I might add a turn in the market that everyone was able to analyze after the fact, but nobody was predicting.
I know of at least one person who was making the prediction. LOL!
But I agree that one cannot predict the future with any certainty. I will predict though that the sun will rise tomorrow in your location.
Paul Krugman told me to rebalance out of equities on Tuesday night and then corrected himself within the next day or two. I still have whiplash. :oops:

Note: I of course did not actually take Krugman's advice, as a long-time survivor of reading his words.
The depressing part is that people do take his advice, if only because 'He's got a Nobel prize in economics, he must be smart!11' And then they'll get burned, decide that the market is a casino, and stay all cash or go into high-risk alternative investments.
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I like and read Kruggie, but have never heard him give investment advice. Does he have a column in MarketWatch or something?
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I can guarantee you two things, the market will go up and the market will go down, I won't guarantee when or how much.
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just frank wrote:I like and read Kruggie, but have never heard him give investment advice. Does he have a column in MarketWatch or something?
It wasn't explicit "do this" advice but he did predict an immediate equities market crash. History has proven that hasty prediction a significant error.

Stay the course.
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triceratop wrote:
just frank wrote:I like and read Kruggie, but have never heard him give investment advice. Does he have a column in MarketWatch or something?
It wasn't explicit "do this" advice but he did predict an immediate equities market crash. History has proven that hasty prediction a significant error.

Stay the course.
Sure, I read his impromptu reaction, but I didn't take it as reasoned or actionable 'advice', so much as an in the heat of the moment reaction. Not appropriate for a columnist to be sure, so it was followed by a mea culpa after he'd gotten some oxygen.

I have a hard time believing that there is a cadre of DIY investors reading Krugman's column twice a week and trading their investments based on it.
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just frank wrote:I have a hard time believing that there is a cadre of DIY investors reading Krugman's column twice a week and trading their investments based on it.
That's good, it keeps the market efficient; for every sucker seller there is a sucker buyer.
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:
just frank wrote:I have a hard time believing that there is a cadre of DIY investors reading Krugman's column twice a week and trading their investments based on it.
That's good, it keeps the market efficient; for every sucker seller there is a sucker buyer.
Or livesoft, picking up a few bargains on a RBD. 8-)
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The sun rose this morning (and so did the stock market).
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My promise to myself is that I will only ever change my investment choices (not AA) on the day before Thanksgiving.

I made it through unscathed. :sharebeer
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The heck with stocks, bonds are in a fee fall.
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:The heck with stocks, bonds are in a fee fall.
At least bonds in free fall go down a bit more gradually than stocks in free fall.
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GoldenFinch wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:The heck with stocks, bonds are in a fee fall.
At least bonds in free fall go down a bit more gradually than stocks in free fall.
Yeah--where's the fun in that?!
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People must be antsy for a freefall, bumping this topic for the slightest reason!

No worries, it will come! :sharebeer
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I've been hoping for a freefall since Nov 18th when Vanguard cut me a rollover distribution check to roll in my funds into employers 401k.....the Vanguard Total Stock fund I was in is up ~3% since then.......grumble grumble.

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2Birds1Stone wrote:I've been hoping for a freefall since Nov 18th when Vanguard cut me a rollover distribution check to roll in my funds into employers 401k.....the Vanguard Total Stock fund I was in is up ~3% since then.......grumble grumble.
At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
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Guys, I just want to give you the heads up now.

I will be causing a major pullback in the US stock market sometime next week!

You see, I just spent a month fixing a mistake I made trying to do a backdoor Roth conversion.

See here for details. viewtopic.php?f=1&p=3142923#p3142923

The result is that I have an extra ~$30k (15% of portfolio) sitting in cash within my 401k/Roth IRA right now. I will be dumping it into the market as soon as Vanguards frequent trading limits are lifted from my account.

History always repeats itself, and the last 3 times I had large lump sums of money to invest, the market dropped immediately after!

You're welcome :sharebeer :moneybag
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:
2Birds1Stone wrote:I've been hoping for a freefall since Nov 18th when Vanguard cut me a rollover distribution check to roll in my funds into employers 401k.....the Vanguard Total Stock fund I was in is up ~3% since then.......grumble grumble.
At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
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2Birds1Stone wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:
2Birds1Stone wrote:I've been hoping for a freefall since Nov 18th when Vanguard cut me a rollover distribution check to roll in my funds into employers 401k.....the Vanguard Total Stock fund I was in is up ~3% since then.......grumble grumble.
At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
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2Birds1Stone wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
You don't have to, you can put in into something other than US stock...
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why3not wrote:
2Birds1Stone wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
You don't have to, you can put in into something other than US stock...
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2Birds1Stone wrote:Guys, I just want to give you the heads up now.

I will be causing a major pullback in the US stock market sometime next week!

You see, I just spent a month fixing a mistake I made trying to do a backdoor Roth conversion.

See here for details. viewtopic.php?f=1&p=3142923#p3142923

The result is that I have an extra ~$30k (15% of portfolio) sitting in cash within my 401k/Roth IRA right now. I will be dumping it into the market as soon as Vanguards frequent trading limits are lifted from my account.

History always repeats itself, and the last 3 times I had large lump sums of money to invest, the market dropped immediately after!

You're welcome :sharebeer :moneybag
Are Vanguard's frequent trading limits prohibiting you from using *all* of the mutual funds available at Vanguard (or elsewhere via a brokerage window, perhaps).

Wasn't there something else you could have put your money, in if you didn't want to be out of the market, so you aren't dependent upon Vanguard's scheduling restrictions?

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ResearchMed wrote:
Are Vanguard's frequent trading limits prohibiting you from using *all* of the mutual funds available at Vanguard (or elsewhere via a brokerage window, perhaps).

Wasn't there something else you could have put your money, in if you didn't want to be out of the market, so you aren't dependent upon Vanguard's scheduling restrictions?

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The reason the money was out of the market for so long was that I initiated a roll in transfer from my Rollover IRA to my employers 401k.

I did this after screwing up a backdoor Roth contribution by not fully understanding the consequences of Pro Rata when doing a recharacterization. I had to jump through several hoops with Fidelity to get them to accept the check that Vanguard cut for the funds.

The frequent trading limit is just keeping those now Roth funds from going back into Vanguard Total Stock.
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2Birds1Stone wrote:
ResearchMed wrote:
Are Vanguard's frequent trading limits prohibiting you from using *all* of the mutual funds available at Vanguard (or elsewhere via a brokerage window, perhaps).

Wasn't there something else you could have put your money, in if you didn't want to be out of the market, so you aren't dependent upon Vanguard's scheduling restrictions?

RM
The reason the money was out of the market for so long was that I initiated a roll in transfer from my Rollover IRA to my employers 401k.

I did this after screwing up a backdoor Roth contribution by not fully understanding the consequences of Pro Rata when doing a recharacterization. I had to jump through several hoops with Fidelity to get them to accept the check that Vanguard cut for the funds.

The frequent trading limit is just keeping those now Roth funds from going back into Vanguard Total Stock.
Right.
But you could still put the money in a very similar fund(s) (like S&P Index, or S&P plus Extended, or whatever) for the duration, to get pretty much around that frequent trading restriction.
Then move it back where you wanted it.

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2Birds1Stone wrote:
ResearchMed wrote:
Are Vanguard's frequent trading limits prohibiting you from using *all* of the mutual funds available at Vanguard (or elsewhere via a brokerage window, perhaps).

Wasn't there something else you could have put your money, in if you didn't want to be out of the market, so you aren't dependent upon Vanguard's scheduling restrictions?

RM
The reason the money was out of the market for so long was that I initiated a roll in transfer from my Rollover IRA to my employers 401k.

I did this after screwing up a backdoor Roth contribution by not fully understanding the consequences of Pro Rata when doing a recharacterization. I had to jump through several hoops with Fidelity to get them to accept the check that Vanguard cut for the funds.

The frequent trading limit is just keeping those now Roth funds from going back into Vanguard Total Stock.
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why3not wrote:
2Birds1Stone wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
You don't have to, you can put in into something other than US stock...
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why3not wrote:
2Birds1Stone wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:At least you don't have to buy the stock back at the higher price or do you :confused
I sure do! See my post above this one. I had $30k out of the market over the past 30 days while the market had it's most recent run up. I'm hesitant to put it all in next week, the data says do it, my gut says that the rally is overbought.
You don't have to, you can put in into something other than US stock...
I was referring to shorting a stock when a margin call comes in. Then there is no choice. OP you don't HAVE to go back in but the train is leaving the station and picking up steam. It's going to be "huge".
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I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the marked go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the marked go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
That's easy, folks had to sell equities in order to rebalance into bonds. There have been quite a lot of rebalancing threads lately, so your fellow Bogleheads have contributed to all this action, too.

Furthermore, the FOMC made a prediction about the future which was not inline with what most pundits were predicting.
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the marked go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
First of all, the change is not even that great and well within your typical noise. But obviously the market reacts to more than just the one change. People are looking at dot plots for projected future changes, wording, economic data, etc. I think these are overall tighter than expected. Though the 25 bp bump in FFR was virtually a lock and presumably priced in, the degree and expectations for future rate increases was not to the current extent.
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the market go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
It lost... let me see, 19,920 to 19,800... 0.6%.

0.6% of my height is 0.4 inches. I lose more than 0.6% of my height when I take off my shoes.
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nisiprius wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the market go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
It lost... let me see, 19,920 to 19,800... 0.6%.

0.6% of my height is 0.4 inches. I lose more than 0.6% of my height when I take off my shoes.
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nisiprius wrote:
Uncle Pennybags wrote:I'm confused; everyone knew with 100% certainty that the Fed was going to raise rates today. So why did the market go into free fall when it was announced? :annoyed
It lost... let me see, 19,920 to 19,800... 0.6%.

0.6% of my height is 0.4 inches. I lose more than 0.6% of my height when I take off my shoes.
Rofl, I have no idea how you come up with these. Coffee over desk!
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Good to see this thread pop up again. This thread is one of Nedsaid's contrary market indicators and it has worked most of the time. If I am right, this will be a short blip downwards.
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vti (domestic) is down less than 1%, which is a pretty expected drop given the Fed's very aggressive stance today and how silly the rally has been.

But vxus (international) is down almost 2%! What gives there? Why is international so pathetic that they're affected more by US policies than the US is? Or did something explode over there and I didn't see it?
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Tamalak wrote:vti (domestic) is down less than 1%, which is a pretty expected drop given the Fed's very aggressive stance today and how silly the rally has been.

But vxus (international) is down almost 2%! What gives there? Why is international so pathetic that they're affected more by US policies than the US is? Or did something explode over there and I didn't see it?
Maybe they're better at reading the writing on the wall. Or maybe not. Or maybe their markets close earlier. Rip the entrails out of a pigeon and get back to me.
I get the FI part but not the RE part of FIRE.
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Re: U.S. stocks in freefall

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TomatoTomahto wrote:
Tamalak wrote:vti (domestic) is down less than 1%, which is a pretty expected drop given the Fed's very aggressive stance today and how silly the rally has been.

But vxus (international) is down almost 2%! What gives there? Why is international so pathetic that they're affected more by US policies than the US is? Or did something explode over there and I didn't see it?
Maybe they're better at reading the writing on the wall. Or maybe not. Or maybe their markets close earlier. Rip the entrails out of a pigeon and get back to me.
I already asked CNBC.
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Re: U.S. stocks in freefall

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Tamalak wrote:vti (domestic) is down less than 1%, which is a pretty expected drop given the Fed's very aggressive stance today and how silly the rally has been.

But vxus (international) is down almost 2%! What gives there? Why is international so pathetic that they're affected more by US policies than the US is? Or did something explode over there and I didn't see it?
That's just money fleeing to the dollar.
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Re: U.S. stocks in freefall

Post by Uncle Pennybags »

Tamalak wrote:vti (domestic) is down less than 1%, which is a pretty expected drop given the Fed's very aggressive stance today and how silly the rally has been.

But vxus (international) is down almost 2%! What gives there? Why is international so pathetic that they're affected more by US policies than the US is? Or did something explode over there and I didn't see it?
Higher rates mean a stronger dollar. Everything is priced in dollars even for those people.
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Re: U.S. stocks in freefall

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Freefall ain't what it used to be.
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