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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:44 PM Author: startling irradiated idiot market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928407) |
Date: January 30th, 2014 9:44 PM Author: Nudist hospital ceo buy low, sell high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928409) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:44 PM Author: french adventurous whorehouse philosopher-king index funds are the only thing ever worth investing in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928410) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:45 PM Author: Submissive Office Codepig save 30-50% of your gross salary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928413) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:13 AM Author: Brindle alcoholic stain business firm op is asking - and then what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397058) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 1:14 AM Author: Dead telephone .......is that even possible? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436659) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 10:22 AM Author: Dead telephone Seriously, is that possible... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25437706) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 10:29 AM Author: High-end concupiscible senate We do.
Half our income goes into savings.
Of course it helps that we live overseas and benefit from the tax allowance and have housing and schooling provided by the company.....
But even if we lived in the US we'd still be socking away 25%. It's all about discipline and priorities. My parents (professor and housewife) saved between 20 to 25% annually and still put two kids through private schools and colleges. |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 11:17 AM Author: Dead telephone Oh, yeah that's doable. I'm just living in NYC next year and not sure I can do more than 33%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25437922) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 11:19 AM Author: aphrodisiac amethyst alpha Honestly, if you do this, nothing else matters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25437926) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:45 PM Author: Buff Really Tough Guy Shitlib surest return is to lower fees/costs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928414) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:40 PM Author: Heady indian lodge sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25438449) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:46 PM Author: dashing cowardly gunner no. you. you are the nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928415) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:52 PM Author: know-it-all boistinker Index funds for 95% of people.
Buy quality at a fair price.
Invest in businesses you understand.
Be long term, don't trade.
Don't borrow money.
Never write a put.
Never buy shares in a Greek or Indian company.
Always go for lower than 1% fees.
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:55 PM Author: Nudist hospital ceo why never write a put? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928473) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:57 PM Author: know-it-all boistinker for most people, if you write a put on a stock and it swings wildly downward, you could face huge losses.
Obviously if you know what you are doing it's a different story but the moral is to never be on the hook for shit - which a put can put you on. |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 9:58 PM Author: Claret bull headed toaster CR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928495) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:16 PM Author: Talented coral kitchen The third is (IMO) one of the most important.
I would also say to shop for the best price or terms. For example, pick the mortgage lender with the best rates and costs. Some places like the bank that you have a checking account with may be willing to shave off a few points if you have a checking account with them.
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:53 PM Author: Irate meetinghouse hissy fit "Be long term, don't trade."
This is probably the easiest concept to grasp out of anything and it's the one thing most people don't do. |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 11:21 PM Author: Very tactful public bath A high quality value lean rebalanced quarterly absolutely crushes the S&P 500 over the long term - and stocks held over a long enough horizon definitively go up with non-trivial yield en route.
Basically, I pull between 40-50 non-distressed names from the S&P 500, but if you are really lazy the IVE index is not a bad choice. My narrowing process boils down to a screen on single-stock analyst sentiment. The higher the aggregate buy conviction, the more sentiment will be swimming in your favor even if the story ends up being a touch too bullish. In my opinion, the quality / value tilt approach is the most common one taken by people who actually work in equity / portfolio research on the street and don't trade micro news flow.
Use a reputable discount brokerage (ideally the one affiliated with your bank if you have 100K plus assets) and implement for next to nothing (I get more free trades in a month than any non-day trader would ever use). You should never pay to trade an index fund apart from the management fee, which should be a small fraction of 1%.
Finally, never pay for a financial advisor unless you have serious estate planning needs, are divorced, need to shelter assets from another jurisdiction, etc.
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Date: February 6th, 2014 7:36 PM Author: Orange Ungodly Newt can you explain what a high quality value lean rebalanced quarterly is? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24969272) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 1:25 AM Author: Very tactful public bath You need to consolidate the gains of value companies you have bought and run up to a fuller valuation. You also need to eliminate those that have taken a turn from being merely low multiple to of actual questionable quality as going concerns or are likely to be treating as such by the street. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436697) |
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Date: February 6th, 2014 7:48 PM Author: fluffy abode roast beef (Mortgage originator in the 00's) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24969307) |
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Date: February 9th, 2014 1:47 AM Author: histrionic bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24981968) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:07 AM Author: histrionic bawdyhouse "Use a reputable discount brokerage (ideally the one affiliated with your bank if you have 100K plus assets) and implement for next to nothing (I get more free trades in a month than any non-day trader would ever use). You should never pay to trade an index fund apart from the management fee, which should be a small fraction of 1%."
Do most banks have an associated stock trading platform?
Where do I go to buy an index fund?
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:41 AM Author: histrionic bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436496) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 1:23 AM Author: Very tactful public bath Yes, most banks have an associated stock trading platform. Buying an index fund is simple once you have been credentialed. There is not reason to pay some broker some recurring free because they helped you do some account setup and made a trade for you over the phone. Sell directed accounts are pretty facile unless you are totally clueless about how the stock market works (like a bid ask spread or something is or P/E ratios are hard to digest) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436692) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 10:35 AM Author: Racy Vermilion Library so the tl;dr version of your advice is go all in on IVE? i believe in value investing but i don't have the discipline to analyze and pick individual stocks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25437746) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:46 PM Author: Heady indian lodge sandwich i highly doubt your first sentence unless you define 'high quality' in a circular definition. cites? |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:52 PM Author: mentally impaired green organic girlfriend principal's office there are various financial metrics of "quality":
http://turnkeyanalyst.com/2012/08/22/how-to-identify-high-quality-stocks-part-3a-of-4/
http://business.uic.edu/docs/default-source/finance-dept.---papers/the-quality-dimension-of-value-investing.pdf?sfvrsn=2 |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:23 PM Author: Galvanic Party Of The First Part Urban real estate is one asset class that outperforms stocks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928623) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2014 10:25 AM Author: violet hell THIS is likely the only way a prole can have a leisurely life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24948582) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:11 AM Author: electric stubborn menage do i have to actually go to the hassle of picking out properties, getting financing, fixing up the properties, lining up tenants, dealing with maintenance issues, paying property taxes, etc. or can i just invest in a REIT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397054) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:14 AM Author: know-it-all boistinker You have to go through the hassle but the rewards are very significant, as it is one of the only places where you can feel pretty good about using leverage (IMO). The amount of trouble it takes is worth it in this low interest rate environment. If by some miracle interest rates on mortgage dive another 500 basis points it will be a once in a multi-decade opportunity to buy cash flowing pieces of real estate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397061) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:16 AM Author: electric stubborn menage if im not in a position to obtain financing for another 2-3 years am i going to miss the boat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397064) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:18 AM Author: know-it-all boistinker it is a mystery friend
depends on where the interest rates are
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Date: May 2nd, 2014 7:53 PM Author: Rough-skinned coldplay fan Yup. The market hasn't realized this and made solid income producing properties outrageously expensive at all. Every major city has class a and b money chasing c product. It's not a great environment for most to get in the real estate game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25492677) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:23 AM Author: Brindle alcoholic stain business firm lulz
you left out the time span and the lacale(s) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:45 PM Author: Mewling shrine selfie If you are going to buy and hold then do it with futures rather than some index fund that makes 1/8 of the returns (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928745) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:46 PM Author: Galvanic Party Of The First Part So you're telling me I could have 50% returns on a buy and hold asset? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928761) |
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Date: January 30th, 2014 10:52 PM Author: Irate meetinghouse hissy fit Invest, don't trade. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24928801) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2014 4:46 AM Author: Contagious lavender boltzmann long/short (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#24948131) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:14 AM Author: Soul-stirring Haunted Graveyard Pistol Don't take specific investment tips (e.g., go long on "x"; short "y") from anonymous people on the internet. Observe the thread I will bump. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397059) |
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Date: April 17th, 2014 2:16 AM Author: Light at-the-ready half-breed don't let a goy manage your money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25397065) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:46 AM Author: house-broken goal in life Don't try to beat the market. Those people like Buffett and Soros invest as a full time job... Their success has NOTHING to do with what an average person should do. Your full time job is (insert your job here); always see your investments as just a way to add a little bit extra to your savings. Stick to index funds and safe bonds (you can be more ambitious than treasury bonds though). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436533) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 12:50 AM Author: navy den Do these prop trading firms have legit strategies, or all they all full of shit? If so, are they strategies I can use, or does it require sitting at my computer monitoring shit all day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436553) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 11:40 AM Author: frozen salmon mad-dog skullcap you can't play that game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25438050) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 1:08 AM Author: Vivacious peach rehab Buy 10 AZNgirls for $10,000, sell them to KIKES for $100,000. PROFIT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25436634) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 9:43 AM Author: Stirring slimy toilet seat buy appl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2482118&forum_id=2#25437515) |
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Date: April 24th, 2014 1:20 PM Author: frozen salmon mad-dog skullcap -passive index funds, be sure to check expense ratios. should be very low on index funds. -don't panic out of the market on corrections unless you need the cash right now. -max any tax advantaged accounts you're eligible for. -save a significant portion of your income. -if your compensation is variable, live off your base salary and keep recurring expenses in check relative to it. use bonuses to save, invest, or pay down debt only. -new cars are a waste of money, especially luxury ones. buy a few years old and nobody will know the difference. -once you're established the only debt you take on should be for your primary residence or if you hit hard times. never go into debt for consumer goods. -don't buy a house until you know you want to live somewhere for many years. -don't use "creative" financing like ARMs or interest-only mortgages to buy more house than you can afford. -keep an emergency fund and be prepared for the worst. changing careers or moving can be very expensive. if you have a family, you need to save even more.
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