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Its NOT blind talking of a 10-20 year standstill. Maybe you started investing in the last decade. But Jan 2000 - Jan 2010 is ten years. The SPY is down over that period, and that's not so long ago. Lets not even go further back.

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What I mean is this. When I sell my MSFT to immediately buy CSCO, I pay taxes. Why? My CSCO holding is every bit as risky going forward as MSFT going forward (from the same point). So why justify deferring taxes on basis it is not realised? I haven't touched the money realised from MSFT sale!

The tax rules stopped me!

I actually like a form of this tax. Why do I have to pay tax because I turned over my investment from MSFT to CSCO, while Bill Gates keeps compounding his in MSFT for 30+ years? Does anyone not understand the impact compounding tax-free could have done for me?

Period Update 01/01/2019 - 03/31/2019 ---------- Flat three months, up 4K The reduced trading continues. The only thing I have worked on is reversing the decision to only do automated trading. The issue before now has been not resisting the urge to overtrade sometimes, or to go on doubling...

The problem with such questions is that we are trying to take a role that is beyond us. The fact is that space, time, and even our logical system (scientific thru the medium of our 3-pounds of grey matter) are all interwoven, and products of the universe. Asking what it is like without the...

Why should the West care about another country stepping into the breach? Is it a competition? And Zimbabwe is the battleground?

The argument is for wrong. Just because you print your currency and people are being paid in your currency does not mean people will take whatever you push on to them. At some point they revolt - by then its too late. Ask Zimbabwe.

Busy preparing HELL for those who probe too much!

If you bought FB at the IPO price ($38), I don't know what kind of wide stop would have prevented you from getting out at $20. If you are in it long-term, I believe you should take a proper size (as % of your account) and forget about stop loss. Your exit should be more fundamentally driven than...

Hard to see how you can predict 2nd and 3rd derivatives, and be clueless on the main function.

Are those rates guaranteed for one year? I don't think so. Even if it is, as the stock plunges, those rates become less as a percentage of your initial investment (if you are long those stocks like SAEX you mentioned): it is 100% of current price not your initial entry price. If you paid $70 to...

I dont see how that will address the imbalance. They ship $100b to USA, who in turn ships back $102b (additional cost being for re-packaging, of course no tariffs). So effectively the deficit is reduced by $2b not $100b.

Not entirely. You may find another form of emotional trap: creating/activating/de-activating strategies on emotion. Speaking from experience :)

The SEC collects enough in fees not to have to depend on the Govt. Why do they have to remit to the government, and be furloughed?

Period Update 09/30/2018 - 1/4/2019 ---------- Horrible 3 months to end the year, down 73K (39%). For the year down 39.7K (23%) Not sure how to explain it. The increased volatility was detrimental to my account. Ordinarily I should be doing better from my historical pattern. This time looks...

How could he lose that much in 2018? Isn't he mostly short?

Doesn't that make it a very subjective gobbledygook, against which it is impossible to measure performance?

Seems EW is some form of Fourier Transform that can be made to fit any past pattern. Trying to predict the future and making money of it is a different thing though :)