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You can bash the "pundits" and the "experts" and make sarcastic remarks about being a little guy, but I have news for you. Mathematics doesn't care if your a pundit, and expert, or an individual trader from Alabama. And you cannot escape the mathematics. The fact of the matter is over long...

From the article.. "If you've ever purchased an ETF labeled as Ultra, 2X, Double Long, or Inverse, please read this article. It will take only a few minutes of your time, and it just might save your retirement."...

Get my facts straight? Your a PASSIVE INDEX investor. You practice buy and hold. You don't have to hold forever, but you still practice buy and hold. Anything less and your trading. Those two quotes have nothing to do with buy and hold. In those two quotes you gave, you mentioned buy and...

odd post... to say the least

He stated he was a passive buy and hold index investor. Going short and timing the market would be trading activities which index piker is against. I wasn't speaking to the OP not broadly.

The question is straight forward. Where he can put his cash so that is RISK FREE and will still grow. There is only one answer, anything that yields interest that is backed by the US Government. It could be an fdic insured savings account or CD. A treasury bond, or even a tip. Anything else...

Also, I remember you saying that somehow you think you will beat the s&p index. How will you do that by just having an index portfolio? Only one way... leverage. Remember when you're multiplying your returns, it only takes one year of zero percent to make the end result zero percent...

That is the BIGGEST LOAD OF BULL SH*T I HAVE EVER SEEN, and I used to work on a livestock farm. 1). It doesn't matter if its your grannies portfolio or your daughters portfolio or your brothers portfolio, leveraged etfs WILL lose money if you hold them over long periods of time. That is a...

tide, don't beat yourself up. It always looked so easy in hindsight. But it wasn't. Seeing all the wrong posters on this reminds me that the market is extremely hard to predict consistantly, just short of impossible. I think I'll stick to individual stocks.

Expect to see me back here in 2-5 years to quote you on this. I'll give you one last warning that leveraged etfs are not suitable for long term holding due to the mathematics of how they track their underlying index. If you want to know how bad an investment these are, just google them and read...

Your wife maybe. No I'm just kidding. Well I think you could look at very broad things like some of you have (Japanese stocks, German real estate), or you could look at individual securities as most value investors do. There are always some good deals out there, personally I think JNJ is...

EVERYBODY READ THIS POST BEFORE YOU RESPOND ANY MORE TO RETAILDAYTRADER He is completely fake and is being sarcastic. He is not serious at all. I am sure of it. Reread his posts. His actions are almost the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do while trading. 1. Trade off of emotion...

I was thinking of starting a thread about this after I saw that on cnbc. They're both right, or at least could be. huffington was right that Kudlow said that, but I think she was off base with slamming kudlow for a totally unrelated matter to what they were talking about. And Kudlow could...

EVERYBODY READ THIS POST BEFORE YOU RESPOND ANY MORE TO RETAILDAYTRADER He is completely fake and is being sarcastic. He is not serious at all. I am sure of it. Reread his posts. His actions are almost the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do while trading. 1. Trade off of emotion...

retail day trader, You REALLY REALLY REALLY need to get a life. Go get a life thats more fulfilling than trying to trick all the anonymous guys on elite trader.

Waaaaay too long. You need to paraphrase.

Correct, and a mail man who walks around all day can just as easily be overweight and have bad health.

another closed minded simplistic post from crgarcia. Of course there are some short term traders that make money, but the majority don't. And why do only the retired long term traders make decent returns?

You will eventually lose a lot of money, maybe all, if you are not paper trading.