If you have been invested in just the NASDAQ for the last three years, you have made 101%

Do you understand now that if you invested my way, your DOW exposer would be 25% or less and you would have survived the depression and made money...

Do you understand now that if you invested my way, your DOW exposer would be 25% or less and you would have survived the depression and made money...

What's going to happen next?

After the government fist in your ass takes it's cut, what is 100%? 60%?

After the government fist in your ass takes it's cut, what is 100%? 60%?

And bitcoin was up 1100%.

What's your point ?

Very easy to determine.

Look at similar growth patterns in the past.

For example look at the dot com bubble. It had similar growth. Then it all came crashing down.

Same thing before the 2008-2009 sub-prime bubble burst.


All this indicates is that another market burst is on the immediate horizon.

Its at least 60% left over but technically it could be as little as 40% left over after the taxman takes their cut.

Jan 12, 2017

Nearly six in 10 Americans don't have enough savings to cover a $500 or $1,000 unplanned expense, according to a new report from Bankrate. Only 41% of adults reported having enough in their ...

and that was even before this plandemic

What a great way to start 2022!!

NASDAQ 1.29%

Dow .68%

S&P 500 .64%

Not offensive to you Mr Brief but one cannot serve two masters.

Plenty of Nasdaq stocks one could have been invested in that you wouldnt even have got close to 100%. It has done remarkably well, but the Fed has been pumping money into the game for a while now. Supposedly they will cease and desist this year, but who knows

Plenty of Nasdaq stocks one could have been invested in that you wouldnt even have got close to 100%. It has done remarkably well, but the Fed has been pumping money into the game for a while now. Supposedly they will cease and desist this year, but who knows

Look at these three charts, if you need proof, and average the three big indices:

DOW for 2019-2021= 22.3 + 18.9 + 7.2 = 16.13%

S&P 500 2019-2021= 28.9 + 26.9 + 16.3 = 24.03%

NASDAQ 2019-2021= 35.2 + 43.6 + 22.3 = 101.1%

2019-2021= 141.43% average = 47.23%

If anyone wishes to double check me, feel free...

So I would like to once again introduce my theory of, for lack of a better term, the "Do something Syndrome"

Basically, my theory has proven correct and effective.

In the face of uncertainty in life, and here we are discussing economic uncertainty, people have the kneejerk reaction to "DO SOMETHING".

I have proven to myself over the course of 30+ years of investing, that the best strategy is to DO NOTHING...

If you pulled out of the market in the last three years, you lost out!

Investing is for the long term with the goal of never cashing out...You only take distributions, and let your portfolio grow into a monster!!

If you pull your money out of the market trying to time the prevention of a loss and then time the gains, to put the funds back in, you are not an investor...A gambler, but not an investor...

If you began the pandemic with 100k, you would have more than doubled your money 200k+ (being very conservative)

However, if you missed out on 10 of the largest days of growth in that time period, we calculated you would have lost $35,000, and have $165,000 remaining...

Remember, investing is making a loan, not "Here's a few grand, now give it back and hope some money sticks to it" LOL That is not an investment strategy, unless poverty is your goal...

Many of you have asked me to make an investment/money thread, so here you go, ask away...








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of course the market will go up, its priced in dollars and they can just print 'money'

the regular man has to work for these crony-backed fiat notes that are inflated away.

so, while the number goes up, the real value goes down.

100% is actually pretty pathetic spanning three years.

Brief, is correct, but ....

There is something that he's not telling you. There have been many extended periods of time over that 100 years when the gains have been minimal and the losses have been significant. When INVESTING in an index, you need to have a long term investing profile. You need to think decades into the future. It took over a decade for the nasdaq to recover from its losses during the high tech crash in 2000/2001.

Brief, is correct, but ....

There is something that he's not telling you. There have been many extended periods of time over that 100 years when the gains have been minimal and the losses have been significant. When INVESTING in an index, you need to have a long term investing profile. You need to think decades into the future. It took over a decade for the nasdaq to recover from its losses during the high tech crash in 2000/2001.

Long term is an understatement. Read my estate plan, it's forever investing...



I just recently informed my three boys and their wives that I built an IRA and maxed it out for 26 years, and I will never need it. So I'm going to begin early inheritance Distrubutions...

3% each for the three families for a total realization of 9% per year from the IRA, and the rest is left to grow...forever...

Then when I get squished, my taxable brokerage account will be added, and the same rules apply, 3% per year per family, and averaging 20% we will grow 11% per year until Jesus returns...

Depending on the age of the family members, that 3% may be a bit rich. 4% used to be the golden rule for withdrawals in retirement. They have been recently modifying that number lower in this low interest environment we've been in for many years. Until Jesus? I'd drop that to 2% just to be safe especially now as we continue in this high inflationary period which may get worse.

I only have 25% of my portfolio in tech anyway...Diversity is the key...

Agree totally and since most 401K's and other managed investment funds generally stick with Blue Chip or safer harbor stocks, most should have enjoyed hefty gains.