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Re: Top is in
« Reply #7550 on: February 10, 2021, 12:31:27 PM »
I think that picture is based on Armaments 3:12-14 "And he spake unto them saying, lo, whithersoever thou goest, take with thee thine fully automated firearm.  For the path unto heaven is plagued by bad hombres.  Woe unto the unarmed for he who hath not adequate firepower shall not be able to force entry thereunto."

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« Reply #7551 on: February 10, 2021, 12:58:34 PM »
I think that picture is based on Armaments 3:12-14 "And he spake unto them saying, lo, whithersoever thou goest, take with thee thine fully automated firearm.  For the path unto heaven is plagued by bad hombres.  Woe unto the unarmed for he who hath not adequate firepower shall not be able to force entry thereunto."

A more modern language rendition than the Colonel Colt edition quoted above.


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« Reply #7552 on: February 10, 2021, 07:33:46 PM »
Is everyone day trading now? Top might really be in . . .

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« Reply #7553 on: February 10, 2021, 07:36:40 PM »
Is everyone day trading now? Top might really be in . . .

If your not making 5000% a year buying out of the money calls your going to be left behind.

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« Reply #7554 on: February 10, 2021, 07:54:40 PM »
Is everyone day trading now? Top might really be in . . .

If your not making 5000% a year buying out of the money calls your going to be left behind.

I'm fearful of missing out . . . shut up and take my money!

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« Reply #7555 on: February 10, 2021, 07:55:02 PM »
Friend of mine thinks he's going to turn $400 into $25K in 6 months - 5000% is for chumps.

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« Reply #7556 on: February 11, 2021, 09:06:28 AM »
Friend of mine thinks he's going to turn $400 into $25K in 6 months - 5000% is for chumps.
Popcorn in hand, waiting for winner brag, but likely all we'll hear is crickets.

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« Reply #7557 on: February 12, 2021, 08:41:46 AM »
VTSAX has eclipsed $100

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« Reply #7558 on: February 12, 2021, 08:54:37 AM »
VTSAX has eclipsed $100

Wow, it was in the mid thirties back in 2012 when we started using it.

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« Reply #7559 on: February 12, 2021, 08:57:19 AM »
The market is a brontosaurus today.

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« Reply #7560 on: February 12, 2021, 09:14:18 AM »


The Brontosaurus top is in!

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« Reply #7561 on: February 12, 2021, 09:24:54 AM »
Back when the Cretaceous top was in (aka, Chicxulub top) :


For those into precious metals, iridium really spiked there.
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« Reply #7562 on: February 13, 2021, 12:36:02 PM »
I knew we were in for a huge, multi-year run-up when a Fox-News-watching Republican I know switched her 401k to all cash last October, because "the stock market is going to crash if Biden gets elected."

That's what she said aloud, but I imagine the explanation was simpler: She had been talking to @thorstach

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« Reply #7563 on: February 13, 2021, 11:04:53 PM »
^Reality is so confusing compared to our simple theories.

Lucky we have thorstach to guide us.

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« Reply #7564 on: February 14, 2021, 05:02:34 AM »
I knew we were in for a huge, multi-year run-up when a Fox-News-watching Republican I know switched her 401k to all cash last October, because "the stock market is going to crash if Biden gets elected."

That's what she said aloud, but I imagine the explanation was simpler: She had been talking to @thorstach

Conflating political preferences with stock market performance TOP IS IN!

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« Reply #7565 on: February 14, 2021, 08:37:50 AM »
I knew we were in for a huge, multi-year run-up when a Fox-News-watching Republican I know switched her 401k to all cash last October, because "the stock market is going to crash if Biden gets elected."

That's what she said aloud, but I imagine the explanation was simpler: She had been talking to @thorstach

Conflating political preferences with stock market performance TOP IS IN!

Goes both ways too:

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/welp-i'm-going-to-take-a-stab-at-timing-the-market/

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« Reply #7566 on: February 14, 2021, 09:08:16 AM »
Market timing?

Top is always in, so why market time - you're always buying at the top!

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« Reply #7567 on: February 14, 2021, 10:42:58 AM »
I knew we were in for a huge, multi-year run-up when a Fox-News-watching Republican I know switched her 401k to all cash last October, because "the stock market is going to crash if Biden gets elected."

That's what she said aloud, but I imagine the explanation was simpler: She had been talking to @thorstach

Conflating political preferences with stock market performance TOP IS IN!

Goes both ways too:

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/welp-i'm-going-to-take-a-stab-at-timing-the-market/

I'm aware of that thread. jroldtimer shot himself in the foot too. I sympathize with his sentiment, but he made a bad call. The president doesn't have as much of an effect on the economy or stock market as people like to think.

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« Reply #7568 on: February 14, 2021, 02:12:33 PM »
I knew we were in for a huge, multi-year run-up when a Fox-News-watching Republican I know switched her 401k to all cash last October, because "the stock market is going to crash if Biden gets elected."

That's what she said aloud, but I imagine the explanation was simpler: She had been talking to @thorstach

Conflating political preferences with stock market performance TOP IS IN!

Goes both ways too:

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/welp-i'm-going-to-take-a-stab-at-timing-the-market/

I'm aware of that thread. jroldtimer shot himself in the foot too. I sympathize with his sentiment, but he made a bad call. The president doesn't have as much of an effect on the economy or stock market as people like to think.

According to this site it would have been a good idea to stay out of the market during Nixon and the younger Bush’s terms. With every other president since WWII you would have had positive returns.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2614/sp500-performance-by-president-from-election-date

Interestingly enough, the returns after 4 years for the most recent 4 presidents excluding George W range from 75.5% for Clinton down to 57.6% for George HW, with Obama at 58% and Trump at 64.7%. To me, that’s a pretty close grouping. I’d think it’s fair to say that the political affiliation of the President hasn’t had any correlation to stock returns during their first four years in office for the last 30 years. But, if you look back 50 years, we have enough data to say that the odds of negative returns are infinitely higher during a republican administration than a democratic one.

Somebody could actually do the math on that, but that sounds way too serious for this thread.


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« Reply #7569 on: February 14, 2021, 03:42:16 PM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

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« Reply #7570 on: February 14, 2021, 04:39:12 PM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

According to this calculator:
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

The average return of the S&P for my 40 years on this planet has been 11.47% before inflation... so yeah maybe we’ll get 11 percent for the second term if there is one...

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« Reply #7571 on: February 14, 2021, 06:00:05 PM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

Well, I see Reagan at 94.8% return over eight years, which is 8.7% per year if my math is correct, Clinton at 204.8%, which is 14.9% per year, and Obama at 145.3%, or 11.9% per year. So, we’d better hope for a two-term Democratic president if we want sustained double-digit increases. It’s those republicans who have dragged down average returns over the last 50 years, according to the data.

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« Reply #7572 on: February 14, 2021, 06:29:54 PM »
Ok, now I got curious. I didn’t check my math, but here’s the numbers I see. Somebody should check this to see if I’m wrong.




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« Reply #7573 on: February 14, 2021, 06:47:17 PM »
Ok, now I got curious. I didn’t check my math, but here’s the numbers I see. Somebody should check this to see if I’m wrong.

Looks close enough (just by eye), but seems like maybe it's not inflation adjusted?

70s and early 80s had a big difference between real and nominal returns fwiw.

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« Reply #7574 on: February 14, 2021, 06:51:27 PM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

According to this calculator:
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

The average return of the S&P for my 40 years on this planet has been 11.47% before inflation... so yeah maybe we’ll get 11 percent for the second term if there is one...

Or maybe your time on the planet included the biggest bull market ever and S&P average returns will decline to historical averages. :)

Negative returns for the next 40 years! Top is IN!!!

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« Reply #7575 on: February 14, 2021, 07:00:11 PM »
Ok, now I got curious. I didn’t check my math, but here’s the numbers I see. Somebody should check this to see if I’m wrong.

Looks close enough (just by eye), but seems like maybe it's not inflation adjusted?

70s and early 80s had a big difference between real and nominal returns fwiw.

That is a good point. A serious look would use inflation-adjusted numbers.

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« Reply #7576 on: February 14, 2021, 08:01:11 PM »
Are we going to pretend control of Congress doesn't matter as well?

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« Reply #7577 on: February 14, 2021, 08:09:13 PM »
Are we going to pretend control of Congress doesn't matter as well?

Most people don't think it does. Congressman Bob doesn't run for reelection on "I saved the economy!" because there's 500 other people in the building who can share in the credit. On the other hand, presidents do it all the time and have conditioned people to think they're the linchpin to the whole thing.

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« Reply #7578 on: February 14, 2021, 09:09:16 PM »
Are we going to pretend control of Congress doesn't matter as well?

Most people don't think it does. Congressman Bob doesn't run for reelection on "I saved the economy!" because there's 500 other people in the building who can share in the credit. On the other hand, presidents do it all the time and have conditioned people to think they're the linchpin to the whole thing.

I’d be interested in seeing inflation-adjusted returns based on which party controls congress. You should go find that and post it.

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« Reply #7579 on: February 14, 2021, 10:38:53 PM »
According to this calculator:
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

The average return of the S&P for my 40 years on this planet has been 11.47% before inflation... so yeah maybe we’ll get 11 percent for the second term if there is one...

Or maybe your time on the planet included the biggest bull market ever and S&P average returns will decline to historical averages. :)

Negative returns for the next 40 years! Top is IN!!!
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This bull market has gone on long enough that all the numbers I'd gotten used to quoting about the long term CGAR of the stock market (6.8% after inflation, 9% before inflation) going all the way back to 1871 (150 years!) are no longer correct. Those two values are up to 7.1% and 9.3% respectively.

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« Reply #7580 on: February 15, 2021, 12:36:28 AM »

This bull market has gone on long enough that all the numbers I'd gotten used to quoting about the long term CGAR of the stock market (6.8% after inflation, 9% before inflation) going all the way back to 1871 (150 years!) are no longer correct. Those two values are up to 7.1% and 9.3% respectively.

That can only mean one thing.

19th Century top is in.

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« Reply #7581 on: February 15, 2021, 02:41:23 AM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

According to this calculator:
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

The average return of the S&P for my 40 years on this planet has been 11.47% before inflation... so yeah maybe we’ll get 11 percent for the second term if there is one...

That's with dividends reinvested.  So for accurate comparison we need to know if the original returns were "total returns" (I was assuming no)

edit: and it's looking more like no based on my casual checking, although I can't get the numbers to match up either way.  Are we doing Jan-Jan or Jan-Dec?
« Last Edit: February 15, 2021, 02:45:00 AM by dragoncar »

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« Reply #7582 on: February 15, 2021, 03:23:44 AM »
best returns by president??
increasing predictions going forward??

What utter nonsense people. give your heads a wobble.

THE TOP IS IN.

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« Reply #7583 on: February 15, 2021, 06:53:46 AM »
best returns by president??
increasing predictions going forward??

What utter nonsense people. give your heads a wobble.

THE TOP IS IN.


Wobbling head top is in!

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« Reply #7584 on: February 15, 2021, 07:30:07 AM »
Those numbers are only for the first term right?  So we can expect something like 12% cagr returns over the next four years now that it’s Biden’s first term?

And as a corollary expect his second term to do poorly?  Because I’m pretty sure average market returns are lower than 12%

According to this calculator:
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

The average return of the S&P for my 40 years on this planet has been 11.47% before inflation... so yeah maybe we’ll get 11 percent for the second term if there is one...

That's with dividends reinvested.  So for accurate comparison we need to know if the original returns were "total returns" (I was assuming no)

edit: and it's looking more like no based on my casual checking, although I can't get the numbers to match up either way.  Are we doing Jan-Jan or Jan-Dec?

This wasn’t supposed to be a serious discussion, but here we are.

That chart I pulled from showed returns from the election date (weird, right?). Looking at the dqydj site, it appears the returns it showed are total returns (not inflation adjusted), but without reinvesting dividends.

So, that dqydj site would probably be the best source if someone wanted to show total inflation-adjusted returns by term and do it from inauguration to inauguration. Now you’ve also got me interested in looking at gdp and unemployment by administration.

I feel like I’ve got enough information to decide that anyone who claims a democratic administration will be bad for stick market returns is spouting nonsense that is completely unsupported by reality.

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« Reply #7585 on: February 15, 2021, 07:40:47 AM »
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I feel like I’ve got enough information to decide that anyone who claims a democratic administration will be bad for stick market returns is spouting nonsense that is completely unsupported by reality.

Stick market top is in!

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« Reply #7586 on: February 15, 2021, 07:49:18 AM »
stick win everytime

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« Reply #7588 on: February 15, 2021, 08:15:50 AM »
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I feel like I’ve got enough information to decide that anyone who claims a democratic administration will be bad for stick market returns is spouting nonsense that is completely unsupported by reality.

Stick market top is in!

Ha! Now should we talk about bind allocations? Sounds kinky.

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« Reply #7589 on: February 15, 2021, 09:03:36 PM »
best returns by president??
increasing predictions going forward??

What utter nonsense people. give your heads a wobble.

THE TOP IS IN.


Wobbling head top is in!

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« Reply #7590 on: February 18, 2021, 05:54:23 PM »
Did anyone see that GME is down to LXVI? That's a long ways down from CCCXVI. Caveat emptor! In summo est!

GME, stock picking, and crypto no longer show up on the top 5 reddit communities. Pop culture giving a shit about GameStop Top is in!

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« Reply #7591 on: February 23, 2021, 10:40:19 AM »
Question to anyone who is or ever was convinced the Top Is In...

Did you sell any or all of your portfolio?

Did you go to cash? What percent?

Did you move to defensive stocks?

My take... when things get frothy I look at what's either languishing or is getting ripe. I sold some tech ETFs in January and although they are (somewhat) higher, I'm happy to be out of them at this time.

What's your take?

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« Reply #7592 on: February 23, 2021, 10:52:03 AM »
Question to anyone who is or ever was convinced the Top Is In...

Did you sell any or all of your portfolio?

Did you go to cash? What percent?

Did you move to defensive stocks?

My take... when things get frothy I look at what's either languishing or is getting ripe. I sold some tech ETFs in January and although they are (somewhat) higher, I'm happy to be out of them at this time.

What's your take?
Those sounded like honest questions instead of humorous, satirical comments -- which is what this thread is about...

But I'll play along.   I, like most of the world, hasn't a damn clue about whether the top is in, or which sub-portion of the market is at the top and which is about to rise.   So I just buy and hold and pretty much ignore the ride.   I sell when I need to and not before.    Toss in mitigation strategies to handle big market drops for a couple of years and hey! presto!  it works for us.

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« Reply #7593 on: February 23, 2021, 03:21:13 PM »
Question to anyone who is or ever was convinced the Top Is In...

Did you sell any or all of your portfolio?

Did you go to cash? What percent?

Did you move to defensive stocks?

My take... when things get frothy I look at what's either languishing or is getting ripe. I sold some tech ETFs in January and although they are (somewhat) higher, I'm happy to be out of them at this time.

What's your take?

I sold most of my tesla

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« Reply #7594 on: February 23, 2021, 03:27:26 PM »
Question to anyone who is or ever was convinced the Top Is In...

Did you sell any or all of your portfolio?

Did you go to cash? What percent?

Did you move to defensive stocks?

My take... when things get frothy I look at what's either languishing or is getting ripe. I sold some tech ETFs in January and although they are (somewhat) higher, I'm happy to be out of them at this time.

What's your take?
Those sounded like honest questions instead of humorous, satirical comments -- which is what this thread is about...

But I'll play along.   I, like most of the world, hasn't a damn clue about whether the top is in, or which sub-portion of the market is at the top and which is about to rise.   So I just buy and hold and pretty much ignore the ride.   I sell when I need to and not before.    Toss in mitigation strategies to handle big market drops for a couple of years and hey! presto!  it works for us.

Please move your heretical opinions to a different thread. The top is in, the top has always been in, and anyone who says differently will be burned.

Heretical top is in.

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« Reply #7595 on: February 23, 2021, 05:32:45 PM »
Sophia Loren happy she shorted the market since the Top is In.


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« Reply #7596 on: February 23, 2021, 07:27:28 PM »
The Romans were really good at philosophy, the arts, and military conquest. But their math sucks.

If my country was one of the last metric hold outs in the world, I wouldn't cast stones in this direction.

:P

Wouldn't you need to be British to cast stones?

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #7597 on: February 23, 2021, 07:45:33 PM »
Jayne Mansfield tube top is in

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« Reply #7598 on: February 23, 2021, 08:33:17 PM »
The Romans were really good at philosophy, the arts, and military conquest. But their math sucks.

If my country was one of the last metric hold outs in the world, I wouldn't cast stones in this direction.

:P

Wouldn't you need to be British to cast stones?

A very measured and weighty response...

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« Reply #7599 on: February 24, 2021, 06:34:18 AM »
Honestly when I saw an article last week that was something to the effect of “Bank of America says the argument for a bear market...there is reason for a bear market” got me thinking...well that could certainly be a sign of the top.