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    Quote Originally Posted by alevin View Post
    Careful bc, this lil mousie intends to roar someday (quietly of course).
    how can one roar quietly? i don't get it. that reminds me of an old joke, but i'll get to that later. what was incorrect about the analogy?

    bull in a china shop doesn't even begin to describe birchtree, although he clearly lacks tact and will stomp anything in his path. but nobody doubts he is the biggest beast on the savanah. definately elephant.

    lion is a good fit for boghie because he obviously hunts with his pride. employing multiple skill sets/investment funds available to him as a team to accomplish the goal, which is to eat. see his obvious disdain for the alpo meal deal. yep, lion.

    mouse is you, always after that little nugget of cheese, quiet and secret and sneak, but squeal and scramble at the first hint of a trap. most times the trap smells so inevitable you hardly venture out of the hole. uh huh, mouse.

    jth is like lion except for the whole alpha thing. rest assured he is in the forest and aware and distributing the pack for advantage. and if he spots the kill will leap off that cliff and tear it limb from limb. tooth and nail, baby. rocks and sticks. good luck challenging his experience and technical superiority, totally wolf.

    me? just a babe in the woods. some gross pig, or an ass with a kick. but pigs and asses have a shot at eating too.

    so short-term the mouse has lost less than the rest, with damage distributed predictably along the risk chain. midterm? who knows, that win will go to the quick. long term? who knows again, that win belongs to all of us, as long we can eat, just variation in preferred menus is all.

    feds have access to free eap (employee assistance plan) counselors if that is too much to digest.
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  3. #878

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    oh, i almost forgot about the joke part.

    An elephant was walking through the jungle. He stepped on a thorn and started to cry. "OW, OW! This hurts! Somebody help me!" Just then, a little mouse passed by.
    "Oh, please, little mouse!" the elephant pleaded. "Please take this thorn out of my foot! It really hurts!"
    "No Way!!" cried the mouse. "I know you! You stepped on my brother last week!"
    "I'm sorry about that! Just, please! Help me! I'll do anything!" cried the elephant.
    "Anything?" replied the mouse skeptically.
    "Yes! I promise!" swore the elephant.
    "Well, okay!" said the mouse.
    So the mouse pulled the thorn out of the elephant's foot, causing instant relief.
    "Thank you little mouse!" said the elephant. "What can I do to repay you?"
    The mouse smiled and said, "Now, you have to let me have my way with you."
    The elephant was horrified. But, he did promise the mouse he'd do anything, so he reluctantly obliged.
    So the mouse climbed on top of the elephant and started f***ing him as fast as his little mouse body could.
    Just then, some monkeys were sitting in a tree, watching, disgusted at this mouse f***ing an elephant. So they started throwing coconuts at the elephant's head.
    "Ow!" cried the elephant as the coconuts bashed his tender skull. "That hurts! Stop it!"
    The mouse kept going and said, "Yeah! Take it all, b**ch! Take it all!"
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  5. #879

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    The lion saw the elephant was distracted and went for the kill and was just enjoying a nice meal when the wolf came by and fought the lion for the huge meal. During the stuggle the mouse and his entire family were crushed. The monkeys ate bananas and enjoyed the show!

    I'm a monkey!

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  7. #880

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    and...btw...your thread has taken a very strange turn!

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    Lions and elephants and wolfs... oh my!
    50% S, 50% C 06 Mar, was 100% G; 80% S 20% C COB 08 Jan '24; 100% G COB 14 Nov; was 100% C COB 31 Oct (Boo!); was 100% G COB 12 Oct; was 50% C, 50% S COB 22 Jun; Life is good!

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  11. #882

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mcqlives View Post
    I'm a monkey!
    oooh oooh, heee heee! so you're the one flinging poo at the stock charts and making the indices go crazy?

    careful with those bananas, they got peels and there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

    my grandma once told me 'eat a banana a day and you'll live forever'. then she died, potassium poisoning tjey think it was.
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    Burro,

    It ain't a hole really. Just kinda a way to hide in the tall grass. I'm guessing it is time to move out of the hidey-hole a bit - you can't pounce from a prone position. So, the big cat views some luscious yummies out there on the savanna. And, one has to take chances to eat. But not too much, not too much. I remember the drought of a few years ago. Pouncing out of the tall grass just to get smashed by an iron horse with a bright light out front. Bad memories of looking up at the 'G Fund'. That grass was tall back then and the hidey-hole was deep; could not see much. We might be pouncing into the path of an on-coming train, but one has to eat...

    Allocation:
    20% G - I wish the 'F Fund' would just correct so I could start using it rather than the Treasuries Slush Fund
    0% F - Cannot be trusted
    34% C - Can't figure out if I should overweight C or I. Kinda like the I, but...
    18% S - A bit of alpa
    28% I - I am thinking this one is ready. Food on the savanna

    Expected Annual Return: 6% after inflation (something like 9% in terms we all can get our heads wrapped around)
    Expected Annual Risk: 8%
    Thus, normally (2/3rds of the time) one could expect a return of 1% through 17% with this allocation.

    I'm only increasing equities by 5%. I was hoping for a more sustained drop to the 6% - 10% range. My work network is blocking the financial charts so I am forced into patience. But that is often a good thing. If equities dump more than 10% I will start stepping out, but right now is a time to start stepping up to the plains level. You gotta eat and I missed lots of meals last year. Not quite licking the Alpo can, but
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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    They even block google finance... that sux
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    May I recommend that FWM read the following:

    That’s how disaster sneaks up on a world determined never to see it coming.

    Always read the Belmont Club, always...
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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  19. #886

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    pssst. hey boghie, want to buy some silver?

    http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/site-news-...tml#post444058
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    Ah, the smell of conflict in the morning...

    I think I will buy on the next +5% dip. Don't like the view - being blocked by all those ugly black swans - but me thinks that one must eat when one can...
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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    "Do You Think It’s A Top?", Points and Figures, Jeff Carter

    This is why index investing rules for the average investor.

    When I was in the pit, even in situations where the market was limit up or limit down, you could find some scraps and ways to try and trim a losing position. The retail guys didn’t get the chance. They were stuck.

    As I read this article, I noticed the ages of the guys that were trading. They were 29, 31; young. They don’t remember 2000. 1987 looks like 1929 to them. It all seems so easy when markets go straight up.

    They see and smell the money and want a taste. Greed is a powerful emotion. Here’s what I want to tell them. You can’t beat the market. Being a good trader isn’t about picking tops and bottoms. Being a good, no, a great trader is knowing what to do with your losers.

    Just like athletics, when you are winning life is easy.
    Folks, in TSP we is even more retail than retail...
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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