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    Quote Originally Posted by JTH View Post
    DCA by nature is buy & hold and most folks don't change their contributions based on market conditions. If you're going to change your DCAs based on market conditions, then I wouldn't call that buy & hold, I'd call it timing the market. So are you telling me you're a market timer is disguise?
    JTH...

    I am not an honest 'Buy and Holder' - but, am normally relatively close...

    Changing – increasing contributions or changing the allocation ratios of contributions - of current contributions does not negate a 'Buy and Hold' strategy. Increasing ones contributions during a crash can be thought of as being the essence of a Buy and Holder. You are increasing the value of DCAs. Reducing your DCA at an unsustainable market top when you have other bills to pay also does preclude being a Buy and Holder. And, changing contribution ratios means very little.

    I would actually position that adjusting allocations in your holdings between a small number of allocation ratios - not exceeding a limiting swing (say 10% - 20%) - is not inconsistent with Buy and Hold. You are not really timing the market if you change current asset allocations a few points. You might not be a true invest and forget, but you are also not a trader.

    Buy and Hold does not mean you cannot adjust, it means that you do not believe that a person can consistently pick a top and a bottom, and thus are unwilling to make massive allocation swings to current holdings. To me, swing trading huge ratios between safety and growth is the indicator of a Market Timing approach.
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    Very true that people cannot pick a top and bottom. For example, I know many of the "top timers" got back in last week- at the same area they went to cash a month ago- missing the gains off the 'bottom of the correction'.

    The whole point of timing the market is to be out during the big drawdowns without regard to trading or tax costs.

    The whole point to buy and hold is to use weakness or regular contributions to build a position over many years.

    I kept 20% in stocks because I'm not smart enough to call a top and have yet to find someone that can. Keeping 20% in is good enough to catch a wave if one forms from here and I'm still debating whether to go 100% cash position or not. I like the idea of keeping some in the game.

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    Great points everyone. I've been hearing only about 3% of folks are able to consistently beat the bull markets and half of that is by luck. However, with some simple long-term timing, you can easily beat the markets in the long run.

    I've already said a straight buy & hold during 2000-2009 would yield you a 3.5% 10-year gain, if you IFT'd 10,000 on the first day of each month.

    As an example, a 50/200 EMA crossover would yield a a 34.02% 10-year gain with a 3.4% yearly average. That slaughters buy & hold, and protects you during the Bear markets.

    Now let's take it 1 step further using the same EMA crossover, only this time, I'll exit the markets completely during sell signals, save up the money (on the sidelines), then throw it all in on the buy signals and at the beginning of each month. I'll use the same 10,000 a month strategy I used before.

    That would give you a 53% 10-year gain with a 5.3% yearly average. That's a total investment of 1.2 mil with an ending balance of 1,847,180.62 million over 10 years and I didn't even count the earnings you made while you sat in the G-Fund for 4.5 years.


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    First post since 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Glad you found something of interest to you

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    Vanguard’s investors are living up their reputations for buying and holding.

    Through the extreme volatility the past fortnight, Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF has seen net inflows on every single trading day, according to new flow data from ETF.com.

    Even on Monday 9 March, when global markets fell 8%, Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF saw net inflows.
    https://www.etfstream.com/news/10722...uying-the-dip/

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    A little concerning. I'd like to see a little more panicky action from them.
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    Y'all know how well I did as a buy-n-holder from 2 Nov 2009 - 23 Dec 2019. A 281% monetary return. My account balance nearly tripled. My worst year was 2018 @ -6.36%. My best year was 2013 @ 35.03%. I was 60 (C) and 40 (S) during that period.
    "Treat your wife with honor, respect, and understanding as you live together so that you can pray effectively as husband and wife." 1 Peter 3:7

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsptalk View Post
    I'd like to see a little more panicky action from them.
    They all seem to walk the buy and hold walk when times are good but when markets turn, it's a different story. It was the same in 2008.

    The core members stick to their financial plan but most of the posts the past few weeks are from people asking what to do now that their account is down big.

    I'd bet most of it was just account balancing (selling bonds to buy stocks) and not "cash on the sidelines".


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bullitt View Post
    Vanguard’s investors are living up their reputations for buying and holding.

    Through the extreme volatility the past fortnight, Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF has seen net inflows on every single trading day, according to new flow data from ETF.com.


    Even on Monday 9 March, when global markets fell 8%, Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF saw net inflows.

    https://www.etfstream.com/news/10722...uying-the-dip/
    Seems that since no mass layoffs (yet) peoples "auto-pilot" bi-weekly contributions continue.
    Dumb money still buying...so we're not near a bottom yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FireWeatherMet View Post
    Dumb money still buying...so we're not near a bottom yet.
    The Dumb Money is getting pretty worried...



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    Tom...how up to date is this chart...is that smart money similar to the NAAIM that Coolhand follows?

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