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park money for buying house - low volatility strategy
Just sold house and plan to buy another one in 1-3 years based on when we like something. Need to build more equity for new house while I park my existing funds in a relatively low volatility plan I am thinking fixed income products but I am not well verse …
They cannot allow treasury yields to go above ~5%.
I'm going to present the case for why the US government/Fed will intervene in any way necessary to prevent yields from going above \~5%. In the modern era, the minimum spending level, not including interest expenses, by the US government is 15.1% of GDP. That was in the year 2000. …
Basic Allocation Model of a Tax Free Retirement Account
So I am starting a Roth IRA from scratch. I am 28, live in the US, and I have been deep diving the market and allocations for a couple months now. An all in one fund is just not for me. I want to see how my money is allocated …
Will Market Makers make more money on market orders rather than limit?
Say a stock’s bid and ask is 100.00 and 100.10. If I put a market buy order in and then somebody else puts a market sell order in. Will the market maker just take that 10 cents? (I bought for 100.10, seller sells for 100.00, market maker takes 10 cents.) …
If I sell and reinvest 401k into infrastructure assets, am I making the wrong call?
Worried about inflation and devaluing dollar and want to reallocate away from total market index fund where 100% of my holdings are and reinvest the same into infrastructure assets which will hopefully help hedge the inflation risk. I always hear I shouldn’t “time the market”. Is this considered the same …
MarketWatch.com: details of insider Buy transactions?
Hi, can you please explain - some insider "purchase" actions are marked with the additional "Acquisition" specifier, and some are not? **What's the difference?** In example below [screenshots](https://imgur.com/a/xqU7gNA), note the difference: [ALB](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/alb/company-profile): * Nov 7, 2023 Purchase * Kristin M. Coleman EVP, General Counsel * **Acquisition** $121.86 PER SHARE * …
Can we stop with the constant attacks on other investors?
I get that we are in difficult times as far as the market and economy go. But this forum has started to become almost unreadable. Every thread is about how people are stupid for not doing this or not doing that or for doing this or doing that. I have …
Young investor looking to retire a bit early (in 10-15 years) should I be buying SCHD now?
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Calling Out the "Buy the Dip" Crowd – You Were in Cash All Along?
Alright, I’m getting tired of the endless parade of people shouting “BUY THE DIP” like it’s some genius strategy. You know what’s hilarious about this? If you have enough cash sitting around to buy this dip, guess what—you’ve been holding a huge chunk of your portfolio in cash this whole …
Treasuries, Taxation and Long-Term Capital Gains?
As we know, interest payments from treasuries are subject to Federal income tax rate same as ordinary income. Also a zero coupon bond would be subject to an impugned income even without any cash flow. However, what if I bought a Treasury maturing in 13 months paying a coupon rate …