*Investors Blog*

[Warstud]

*** Breaking News ***

S & P 500 exits bear market

S&P 500 exits longest bear market since 1948. What stock-market history says about what happens next.

The S&P 500 ends its longest bear-market run since 1948. Here's a look at how the benchmark has fared after waving goodbye to past bears.

www.marketwatch.com

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

... #2. Likelihood of Tesla Superchargers becoming the standard now that Ford has embraced them....

With what Jeff posted in another thread about GM now coming on line with Superchargers, I think this is an instance of a blind pig finding an acorn. Honest, I knew nothing about GM coming online with Tesla's charging network before posting.
Now if we were to talk about automatic driving, I'd have to take a position opposite of Tesla's. There are too many underemployed lawyers in the U.S. looking for an excuse to sue deep pockets for it to ever become widespread. I hope I turn out wrong on this one.

 

[PimTac]

*** Breaking News ***

S & P 500 exits bear market

S&P 500 exits longest bear market since 1948. What stock-market history says about what happens next.

The S&P 500 ends its longest bear-market run since 1948. Here's a look at how the benchmark has fared after waving goodbye to past bears.

www.marketwatch.com

Marketwatch. They must have forgotten the secular bear market of 1966 to 1982.

 

[Pablo]

When Marketwatch went "political" I took them off my investment bookmarks. They have terrible articles.

 

[PWMDMD]

*** Breaking News ***

S & P 500 exits bear market

S&P 500 exits longest bear market since 1948. What stock-market history says about what happens next.

The S&P 500 ends its longest bear-market run since 1948. Here's a look at how the benchmark has fared after waving goodbye to past bears.

www.marketwatch.com

Research from Bank of America indicates the S&P 500 rises 92% of the time in the 12 months following the start of a bull market, compared to the historical 75% average over any 12 month period dating back to the 1950s.

 

[Warstud]

Should I be worried ?

 

[Pablo]

I have some zero coupon T-bills maturing tomorrow.

And this month a couple $100K CD's maturing, starting the "ladder" completion June-July-August

 

[JeffKeryk]

What the heck TSLA? Up another $6 today? 130% YTD? The shorts are down like $8B over the last 12 days...
Thanks GM and Ford for adding billions in revenue to Tesla's bottom line!
Gotta hand it to the big guys... With Tesla's help, they may even make a profit on their EV ventures in a few years.
Or maybe it's that butt-ugly Cybertruk?

He's wack.

 

[Warstud]

Sometimes I wonder why I just dont buy the SPY and SPYD and forget about individual stocks .

 

[JeffKeryk]

Sometimes I wonder why I just dont buy the SPY and SPYD and forget about individual stocks .

A nice index product is the biggest no-brainer.

 

[Dave Hess]

A nice index product is the biggest no-brainer.

I tell my kids the same, just buy ETFs and not try to pick the winners.

 

[JeffKeryk]

I tell my kids the same, just buy ETFs and not try to pick the winners.

My indivudual stocks are from my options and grants from work and a little TSLA. The rest is managed through Schwab Wealth Advisory.

 

[Warstud]

I bet they will try keeping this rally going until after 4th of July .

 

[supton]

Trying to decide if I want to unload some company stock. Much easier to buy and hold (or hold in this case). But I "need" another car this summer. But do I wait for car prices to drop first?

4 years into my Roth and I'm at -$80, lol. I wonder if I should swap FBGRX for something else. Then again, buy and hold was my plan from the get-go. Guessing it'll pop up before long, has been on the swing I think.

 

[99Saturn]

4 years into my Roth and I'm at -$80, lol. I wonder if I should swap FBGRX for something else. Then again, buy and hold was my plan from the get-go. Guessing it'll pop up before long, has been on the swing I think.

Hard to beat a good index fund IMHO but watch the expense ratio you are getting hit with. My $.02.

 

[supton]

Hard to beat a good index fund IMHO but watch the expense ratio you are getting hit with. My $.02.

I’ll check later, not sure now if I did before. Elected to sell some just to learn how to do so.

 

[Dave Hess]

Trying to decide if I want to unload some company stock. Much easier to buy and hold (or hold in this case). But I "need" another car this summer. But do I wait for car prices to drop first?

4 years into my Roth and I'm at -$80, lol. I wonder if I should swap FBGRX for something else. Then again, buy and hold was my plan from the get-go. Guessing it'll pop up before long, has been on the swing I think.

How is your company stock performing ?

1, 5, 10 year performance ?

Too much company stock can be very bad…. like Enron.

 

[supton]

How is your company stock performing ?

1, 5, 10 year performance ?

Too much company stock can be very bad…. like Enron.

It only went public like 2 years ago—so its hard to say. Up 40% over the last year? so I kinda want to cash out some of it while the going is good. Plus the fact that I have a fair amount of it, was 7% of my portfolio.

 

[99Saturn]

I’ll check later, not sure now if I did before. Elected to sell some just to learn how to do so.

FBGRX expense ratio is 0.76% (had to check when I saw your original post as I was curious).

 

[SC Maintenance]

Sometimes I wonder why I just dont buy the SPY and SPYD and forget about individual stocks .

If you count all our holdings - retirement, etc - S&P index funds are by far our largest holding - well over 50% i am sure - I guess I should calculate it someday.

However I read an article from an author I like a while back that said well over 50% of retirement accounts are in S&P index funds - so by definition its not diversified at all. People think there diversified but in reality your index will crash when the market does the same.

Not saying its a bad strategy - simply saying its a different way to think about it.