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Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Joe Louis, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. The Hebrew Husker

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    Yeah my 2055 target date is -12.72% YTD. From what I can tell the bond market index it has a small holding of is -10.32% and the Int’L Bond index is -7.86% YTD

    Overall it’s only like 10% bonds right now.
     
  2. BP

    BP Bout to Regulate.
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  3. jcb-r

    jcb-r Well-Known Member
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    Don't call it a comeback.

    What the fuck was that last hour?
     
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  4. Lyrtch

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  5. Chumbolone

    Chumbolone Wigglin’ my toes on a mink rug…
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  6. WC

    WC Bad Company, ‘til the day I die.
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    Strippers are well known in financial circles as the canary in the coal mine.
     
  7. BP

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    It worked for Steve carrel in the big short
     
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  8. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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  9. Sportfan

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    I’ve seen nothing to say we aren’t doing incredibly well relative to the rest of the world. Think you bang this drum also, but I’ve been trying to remind myself of it more lately.
     
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  10. TAXTAXTAX

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  11. Baseballman86

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    Bought a few really small positions in ROKU, PYPL, DOCU and ETSY. Fully expect to be buying again lower in the coming weeks/months
     
  12. AptosDuck

    AptosDuck Pedantic Hausfrau
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    Picked up some JOBY last week and NRGV yesterday
     
  13. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    I bought a little more SQ yesterday to bring my cost basis down. Really should’ve sold it when I was up quite a bit last year.
     
  14. Baseballman86

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    I'm already down 11% on my ROKU. I have a gift
     
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  15. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    Good to see yields rolling over
     
  16. Arliden

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    I wouldn’t say that, they are rolling over because they think the economy’s going to roll over.
     
  17. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    3pct 10 year was bad and the economy cooling some is good
     
  18. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    8% on SQ for me. My only holding that isn’t getting crushed right now is Ackman’s failed spac PSTH since it’s worth it’s cash value
     
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  19. Arliden

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    The rate of change was bad not necessarily being at 3%.
    But yes some cooling is good inflation wise just depends how cold it gets + how high/long inflation lingers.
     
  20. BP

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  21. kinghill

    kinghill Cool American Flavour
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    Bought some VTI this morning at 195. Cha-ching. Will throw another 1k at it in another month or so.
     
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  22. fish

    fish Impossible, Germany
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    Are we at the bottom? Is it time to buy?

    Inquiring minds want to know.
     
  23. TAS

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    Well what are you buying and why are you buying?

    It's always time to buy total market funds with a long term timeline, but now is an especially great time to do so.
     
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  24. jcb-r

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    Just realized Workday's P/E is 1400. Man, what a steal.
     
  25. kinghill

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    Good lord probably not. I bought VTI as a friend was asking if I was going to buy SARK because he just bought SARK.

    VTI probably goin down

    I don’t care because I’m gonna hold it for 20 years
     
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  26. Sportfan

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    S&P500 crossing 4,000…

    I am ready to be hurt again :loldog:
     
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  27. BP

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    Well this all makes sense
     
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  28. shawnoc

    shawnoc My president is black, my logos are red...
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  29. Baseballman86

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    It's been 3 days and I've been through 6 months worth of swings.
     
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  30. fish

    fish Impossible, Germany
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    [​IMG]
     
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  31. Sportfan

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    Guessing this helps but was hoping for more

     
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  32. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    guess I’ll hold off on paying any more towards my student loan then for the time being. I don’t have that much left and have continued to pay it down since the govt stopped requiring payments during Covid as I didn’t really believe it would happen.
     
  33. Mr Mortisay

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    So if I’m reading that correctly, if you make over 125k you get nothing forgiven? Big fuck you to the medical community that has the most debt. Should count as two years of Covid hazard pay if nothing else
     
  34. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    I saw another that said 150/300k but that’s not too much different
     
  35. Ray McKigney

    Ray McKigney Feel my ubiquity
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    also a fuck you to the legal community, to a lesser extent.
     
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  36. Baseballman86

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    And lawyers. Hell and the technical folks over in engineering and software, though to a much lesser extent than medical and legal
     
  37. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    This is what I had seen previously
     
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  38. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    Where are you getting $125k?
     
  39. EdmondDantes

    EdmondDantes Both winner in league and apparently at life, haha
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    they're going to drag this out right up until the midterms and only deploy it if they absolutely have to.
     
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  40. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    to state the obvious with payments still frozen theres really no incentive to do it until they restart those
     
  41. Mr Mortisay

    Mr Mortisay Well-Known Member
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    Hey, I know that you gave up your 20s to pursue a (supposedly) noble profession, while we locked you into fixed rate loans that cannot be negotiated or consolidated without voiding your ability to have them forgiven, but you make too much yearly income for us to consider forgiving a paltry fraction of your $250,000 of debt from a state medical school, sorry.

    Seriously, my total student loan debt when I had to start repayments was 257,000. That’s without undergrad loans. My wife’s is currently just north of 350 because she was out of state. I can’t even imagine what people at DO or private medical schools graduate with. Shows my ignorant ass to become a doctor when neither of my parents graduated college
     
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  42. Jimmy the Saint

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    Knowing the Dems propensity to step on their own dick they will probably unfreeze payments before getting this finalized.
     
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  43. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    aren't you the guy who had like 100k gains on gamestop gambling
     
  44. Mr Mortisay

    Mr Mortisay Well-Known Member
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    I’ve now been locked behind a paywall, but it’s in there
     
  45. Mr Mortisay

    Mr Mortisay Well-Known Member
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    Not that that would change anything in regards to this matter but my net profit on GameStop ended up being only 10k and obviously the market has more than taken all of that since then.

    I don’t work for a public institution so I consolidated after training and I’m over halfway through paying them off. But should anyone have to pay $4300 a month for a medical education?
     
  46. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    would you rather have free tuition and get paid 100k

    or have big loans but get paid 300k+

    because that's kind of the global dynamic where US physicians have more debt but also have huge salaries the rest the world really doesn't see

    if you'd sold when we were all screaming at you to sell how much would you have made in that bet (that I imagine you had ~10k invested in)
     
  47. soulfly

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    All my friends that did DO school had the military pay for it :idk:
     
  48. Mr Mortisay

    Mr Mortisay Well-Known Member
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    I can see that this is going in the inevitable Lyrtch spiral so I’ll go ahead and pass but this is good evidence that he will even take the side of loan servicers, unwarranted tuition escalation, and the American government as long as it negatively affects individuals that have a higher salary or more property than he does (especially MDs).
     
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  49. bcuga

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    Student loans suck but I do think for higher earners will be way better off in the long term after your loans are paid off. I paid mine off and while it sucked not having much disposable income at that point out of school while making repayments, I am currently enjoying the fruits of my labor traveling the world, saving, pampering myself, etc. Of course I wish I could have saved for a house sooner and traveled sooner in a perfect world. I would not be able to do those things now if not for investing in my education so I am grateful for making that choice at an early age.
     
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  50. Mr Mortisay

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    Oh and the system is solid for us as long as you don’t get sick, fail out, end up in psych/family medicine/pediatrics, or die I guess.