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It feels totally like institutional 'investing' and/or hedge fund 'investing'. Totally.

There are likely others on this site who can sleuth that activity out. But, that is a very large amount of...

You didn't ask me, but since this is my Member Thread you goin' to have to listen to my opinion:nuts:

The investment strategy you mentioned is called 'Momentum Investing' - or, more informally...

I use MoneyChimps 'CAGR of the Stock Market (Annualized Return)' to get those numbers - makes life much easier:D

You make a valid point - and, one that I surprisingly figured out in a post I did...

A couple of messages in another thread got me thinking of investment risk.

Some folks, perhaps those who were not watching their retirement assets in 2001, 2003, and 2008, have a magic number they...

Based on my previous entries I'm well in front of my target:

Age: 57
Balance: $737K (as of 2020/12/31)
Investing: Alternate between three allocations (Conservative, Normal, Aggressive)
Expected...

And, probably will never have to pull that trigger with returns like that. Amazing... GLHF

Ah, but the beauty of this situation is this:

That million dollars split among ten thousand people is pocket change for each of those folks - but, it kept the stock from sinking enough for the...

Folks seem to be misunderstanding this...


The 'Legion of Retail Traders' were able to 'invest' only an amount that stopped the stock from dropping in price - see the chart.
The wonderful...

Yeah, the Talking Heads were yammering about the FED talk. Then the FED talked and the market kept declining. I really don't like market declines in the last hour.

It might be around the time...

That is a super frowny face on the market today...

Scientifically speaking, it might be time to bail to a conservative allocation...

All the jibber jabber yokels were a-yokeling about the...

What you are talking about is an 'In Service Withdrawal'.

You cannot bounce assets back and forth between retirement accounts. An 'In Service Withdrawal' will have tax consequences and a likely...

I guess the title says it all: Why is the S Fund (US Stock Market excluding S&P500) booming???

If we can understand the reason for the advance we can make decisions. The stupid snippets in the...

You can't.

The best you can do is roll-over it to another retirement account such as a Traditional IRA. You can do that when you quit or when you retire.

Also, while I am not certain of the...

AGG (Bonds) are stinkers, but they will help buffer things when the S Fund corrects.

I don't pretend to know when the S Fund will correct, although it does seem a bit floaty right now. What I...

I vote this post to be the most interesting post of the year!!!

Tom, count my vote!!!

Sorry, just had to do this:D

I'm going to keep my powder dry and attempt to keep politics (and my emotions) out of my financial planning. I could have retired now had I just stuck to a 60/40 (equities/bonds) split from 2010...

Look into a 72(T) Distribution. I think that is the ONLY way to pull money out of either TSP, a 401(k), or a Traditional IRA before the age of 59 1/2 without penalty.

BTW, you cannot put a lump...

Uh, the Federal Gubmint just ran a $3.132 Trillion deficit for FY2020.

Is this good???

And, Social Security was expected to be in surplus by a measly $10 Billion in 2020 - thus, it can no long...

I think the computation should be:


Clawback = Your normal Social Security 'contribution' + ((Your normal Social Security 'contribution) * 8)/24)

For me, the deferral lasted eight pay periods....

I decided to crunch some numbers for various types of retirement programs. For Social Security I am not using the returns promised by politicians, but instead the actual return on investment.
...

And, now comes the poison pill of poison pills. The Social Security clawback is about to begin



I really hope we haven't started to live on that deferral, but I know folks have and think it is...

Unless President Biden waves the Social Security clawback folks are going to take a massive hit in their take home income starting this month...

If he, and Congress, want to spend on Bread and...

The market seems frothy. Don't worry about the -7% to -10% drawdowns, those happen frequently and happen fairly quickly. If you cannot accept a -10% year than you should not be in equities. That...

Well, something has to give.

I'm going to try avoiding political biases and knee jerk reactions. I lost too much in gains by equating market = politics during an earlier Presidency. I shall...

So much positive vibe, time for a good correction!!!

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