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GreyGhost said:
Afaik, he's still out. He's (rightfully) not convinced that Trump isn't going to cause more problems. He's probably up about 0.75% and has had no downside risk. I'm down about 0.75% and assumed a bunch of risk. There were some drip/dpp transactions that happened in the interim so I have more shares than when he liquidated. I was going to borrow to invest a bunch if I was down 20%. I never got there before the bounce.
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Yep, this is where I'm at.

I've been sleeping well not having to stress about it. Yeah, I could have bought the dip and rode the wave, or I could havre bought the dip and dear leader might have said something dumb 24 hours later and I could have ended up down again. Not worth the stress.

And yeah, I'm still not convinced there's not more upheaval to time. A lot of the economic damage being inflicted on the US economy right now isn't going to start coming out of the woodwork in the numbers util the weeks and months ahead.
 
My portfolio is +/- even relative to 6 months ago, even though i'm drawing an income, but that's after doing some rebalancing to reduce cross-border risk. I don't think the cross-border risk is all in yet, either.
 
Well thanks to this thread I went to check my 6 month average and 1 year ... basically 0% difference b/w the 2 times.

Only drops were when I took money out for other expenses from my TFSA.

So...doing nothing was effectively the right call for me.
 
mimico_polak said:
Well thanks to this thread I went to check my 6 month average and 1 year ... basically 0% difference b/w the 2 times.

Only drops were when I took money out for other expenses from my TFSA.

So...doing nothing was effectively the right call for me.
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You're even from a year ago? That's not ideal. I'm roughly even over the last three months (-0.5% now) but way up over 12 months. It's not easy for me to see rolling 1 yr return but eyeball average is something like +20% 1 year ror.

EDIT:
Back to ~even on May 17 (up a little but not a significant amount).
 
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GreyGhost said:
You're even from a year ago? That's not ideal. I'm roughly even over the last three months (-0.5% now) but way up over 12 months. It's not easy for me to see rolling 1 yr return but eyeball average is something like +20% 1 year ror.
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I’m even after taking out 20k…so I would’ve been up without that.
 
GreyGhost said:
You're even from a year ago? That's not ideal. I'm roughly even over the last three months (-0.5% now) but way up over 12 months. It's not easy for me to see rolling 1 yr return but eyeball average is something like +20% 1 year ror.
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Same. Though a bit less then 20%
 
TSE matched all time high today.
 
I'm going to sit on the sidelines a bit longer. Like I said earlier, I don't think this is all over yet. Markets tend to be perpetually optimistic in these sorts of situations we're in right now when good news comes along, until they're not. The china-tarriffs-are-off (kinda sorta) rally was big, but everything could change tomorrow, or tonight for that matter.
 
GreyGhost said:
Afaik, he's still out. He's (rightfully) not convinced that Trump isn't going to cause more problems. He's probably up about 0.75% and has had no downside risk. I'm down about 0.75% and assumed a bunch of risk. There were some drip/dpp transactions that happened in the interim so I have more shares than when he liquidated. I was going to borrow to invest a bunch if I was down 20%. I never got there before the bounce.

EDIT:
Back to even money now (Fri May 16). Until trump opens his mouth again.
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Back to even with my all-time high. Up about 3% from when PP sold. No new money in. Some dividends transferred out to service debt used to buy securities. Lots of DRIP/DPP transactions in this period so I have more shares in the pool. That money is accounted for in the total so while it helps the future with more dividends, it doesn't change much now. Obviously substantial risk along the way. It could all change tomorrow in either direction (more likely down than up imo).
 
Pretty crazy stats for Nancy pelosi family. They should be the ones selling the $2000 online courses on how to trade stocks for the average american, grow your portfolio %70 per year!!


This shady "guru" Has admitted to making around 7.5 million by selling online courses how to successfully trade on the Forex market. Another case of, show off fancy expensive cars and lifestyle, and get an average American to pay you a couple grand to show them how you can be successful too.


Here is coffeezilla talking about just how shady this world is, with fake trading platforms to make it look like you are getting rich, but then try and withdraw your money and see what happens. Explaining this "guru" tells you to deposit your money into shady offshore accounts that he is a part owner of, but make sure you use a vpn so it's untraceable. Man there are a lot of gullible people out there.


 
Brian P said:
Anyone who is making money by selling courses on how to make money by doing something ... is probably not making money by doing the something that they're claiming to show you how to make money by doing. Hmmm.
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Anyone remember Trump University?
 
Brian P said:
Anyone who is making money by selling courses on how to make money by doing something ... is probably not making money by doing the something that they're claiming to show you how to make money by doing. Hmmm.
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But…they only need to show that they’re rich…

A fool and their money…
 
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