Comments on: The Five-Step Market-Beating Formula for Successful Investing

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:01:57 +0000

So this makes $30K over ten years from a total investment of $220K. That is 13%, or 1.3% annualized. You can twice out of US treasury bonds than that.

By: Malcolm Campbell

Malcolm Campbell — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:31:59 +0000

Unless the S&P index shown also had a $1,000/month additional investment, which isn’t clear, the comparison appears flawed.

By: Stephen Almond

Stephen Almond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:32:14 +0000

By the way, if you add $1000 per month to the S&P 500 over that 10 year period, you end up with $192,068.

The diversified portfolio is better (it doesn’t lose), but as a 10 year investment – it’s inadequate.

By: H. Williams

H. Williams — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:32 +0000

I have subscribed in the past and concluded that dollar cost averaging is a practice that is no longer wise. Likewise, buy and hold is unwise, and trailing stops are for beginners. Prudent investors do extensive research and employ stochastics in determining entry and exit points on chosen investments. Also, there are many more gains attained using option strategies.

By: Stephen Almond

Stephen Almond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:17:04 +0000

Your boasting about turning an investment of $100,000 with an additional $120,000 (total of $220,000) into $250,000 over 10 year period?

And you’re comparing it to simply investing $100,000 into the S&P with no further additions?

By: Robert Garrison

Robert Garrison — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:40:45 +0000

$1000/ mo. x 12 mos. = $12000 x 10 yrs = $120,000 invested Appears Mark is $100,000 high

“If you added $1,000 per month over the 10 years, you’d have invested a total of $220,000. With annual rebalancing and diversifying, you’d have a portfolio valued at $250,000 in 10 years.”

By: Robert Black, O.D.

Robert Black, O.D. — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:28:24 +0000

A relevant and timely reminder of the advantages of the ‘gone fishin’ portfolio and re-balancing.

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