Birchtree's Account Talk

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What I'm telling you is that as a new moderator you have too much malignity towards the approach of the buy and holder. All strategies should be appreciated and welcomed. No one is suppressing you - so try to lighten your rhetoric. We have many that are lurking on this site and trying to learn a few things to help with their decisions in managing their investment funds both in TSP and outside accounts. We are all helping each other. Snort.
 
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I can't open my chart service. Is anyone else having trouble accessing StockCharts.com?
 
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What makes you say that - I'm not against other folks having a buy and hold strategy.

Do you see me arguing with any of the other Buy and Holders and if so who?(you can't count Desperado, he has been attacking the integrity of the board - entirely seperate issue).

What I'm telling you is that as a new moderator you have too much malignity towards the approach of the buy and holder.
 
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There are no other buy and holders that I'm aware of - I'm the evangelical of buy and holding - and that puts me in the sight line. I'm not worried about me, I can back up the quad .50 anytime - I'm concerned about the inexperienced lurkers that are getting the wrong impression from our moderators. They need to be aware of the necessity to learn before they attempt to churn. You and I disagree on vision.
 
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Actually, there is a BAH in the top 10 of one of the trackers I believe (USMC6056).

Im curious why you choose not to evangelize in the BAH and DCA forums? It seems that would be the best place to inform the inexperienced lurkers that you are concerned about. Anywhere else would leave the door open for, at a minimum, confusion for those lurkers. Especially posting in the "Playing the I fund" and "The Hot Fund for 2007" threads, and wherever else you spill your analysis that inevitably points to the same magical conclusion.
 
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Sugar says it's my desire to remain relevant - she could be right - I think it's more a small public service. DCA is treated as a marginal benefit but few recognize the redeeming value of buying low and acumulating shares. I pulled down over 1300 C fund shares so far this year - how have you done. Talk shares and not percentages.
 
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Im a bit confused about how a BAH investor "pulls down shares" outside of their contributions... If you are saying that the delta in share prices from each purchase to now times number of shares divided by current C-fund price equals 1300C shares, then I would say that is a measure dominated by the size of your TSP account and not much more. For that metric to be a valid measure, it would have to be normalized against the size of your account less some weighting of your contributions across this year.

Thats the reason %ages are used, because it allows for apple-to-apple comparisons without need to discuss size of TSP account.
 
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Im a bit confused about how a BAH investor "pulls down shares" outside of their contributions... If you are saying that the delta in share prices from each purchase to now times number of shares divided by current C-fund price equals 1300C shares, then I would say that is a measure dominated by the size of your TSP account and not much more. For that metric to be a valid measure, it would have to be normalized against the size of your account less some weighting of your contributions across this year.

Thats the reason %ages are used, because it allows for apple-to-apple comparisons without need to discuss size of TSP account.

Yeah, Birch, I never really got the 'shares' thing either..but "pull down" 1300 Berkshire Hathaway A, or B for that matter and I wll be impressed :)
 
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Reported. Again. Cry Baby!

The DCA strategy is a discipline that buys every two weeks regardless of market movement. If you catch a DCA day on the downside you are fortunate enough to buy more shares with the fixed contribution - DCA has nothing to do with account balance. But all my DCAs for the year have been made at prices lower than current pricing and they do in fact add measurably to the account balance. They however do not make a contribution on the percent tracker - and I'm satisfied with that. Impetuosity is not a character trait I find enduring. Johnny Depp.
 
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There are no other buy and holders.....

Actually, there are hundreds of thousands of them.....but they don't spend hours everyday trying to convince people to do nothing with their money..you do stand alone in that regard.

I'm concerned about the inexperienced lurkers that are getting the wrong impression from our moderators. They need to be aware of the necessity to learn before they attempt to churn. You and I disagree on vision.

But that is not what makes you unique to this board. What makes you unique is that you post information, but you don't care if it is appropriate, relevant or meaningful. Every other person on this board, is trying to give an honest unbiased opinion and/or analysis of what they are seeing.

You have proven that you are not interested in analysis, because you only ever present one side and willingly admit that when the market is proving you wrong you simply shift your topic of conversation to DCA.

What you provide is propaganda. Any person on this board can click on the "Member's List" click on "Posts" and sort the members by the number of times they have posted. Subsequently, they can look at all the people that post the most and see how often they post per day. Only Tom, posts more then you, but it is his site - very understandable. This has nothing to do with your strategy other then by voicing the Buy and Hold strategy you stand out....and standing out is what this is all about for you.

You are saturating the board with propaganda. Are you really trying to help? Is anybody asking you for advice on the best buy and hold strategy? Or are you simply in this because you are either lonely and/or bored (sad and pathetic)?

I don't think that is the case either. Someone who fit that description would not go around trying to foster an image of superiority and telling folks that no one should question them because they are a Vietnam Vet.

There is something else at work in your head and it is apparant on many different levels.
 
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Actually I have had a good many pms from folks seeking a little information - they know who has the good sense. I post because I do have valuable information and folks may or may not benefit - that depends on them. You can question anything I have to say at anytime. You are certainly entitled to your opinion and I've earned mine. Your fear level must be building - when are you heading back to the lilly pad? Aren't you really having fun?
 
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Actually I have had a good many pms from folks seeking a little information - they know who has the good sense.

Do they? or do they simply assume that you must know what your talking about because you post every 30 minutes?.

If you are doing the board such a great public service, by all means, direct these folks to the appropriate public forum.
 
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Gee, I just noticed that in the last 11/2 hours I've had over 350 views. That must mean something - there's not much drama today with out the input from Sugar. I think it's good basic investment informational content, even if Mr. Jiffy Lube thinks it's magical. More figgy pudding for everyone.
 
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Reported. Again. Cry Baby!

The DCA strategy is a discipline that buys every two weeks regardless of market movement. If you catch a DCA day on the downside you are fortunate enough to buy more shares with the fixed contribution - DCA has nothing to do with account balance. But all my DCAs for the year have been made at prices lower than current pricing and they do in fact add measurably to the account balance. They however do not make a contribution on the percent tracker - and I'm satisfied with that. Impetuosity is not a character trait I find enduring. Johnny Depp.

Im still struggling with this idea of 1300 shares then. Lets assume the best DCA case for 2006 and that you bought shares of C at the lowest price in 2006 ($13.40/share). 1300*$13.40=$17,420, which is over the max IRS contribution of $15k. Thats problem #1. Problem #2 is that you claim to have gotten that many shares by investing fractional amounts of your contributions across time periods where C was WAY off the minimum--making it even MORE expensive to buy that many shares.
 
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My mistake - add another 104 to that total in the last 30 minutes.

You are saturating the board with propaganda. Are you really trying to help? Is anybody asking you for advice on the best buy and hold strategy? Or are you simply in this because you are either lonely and/or bored (sad and pathetic)?

I don't think that is the case either. Someone who fit that description would not go around trying to foster an image of superiority and telling folks that no one should question them because they are a Vietnam Vet.

There is something else at work in your head and it is apparant on many different levels.

Counting hits and making up people to talk to. The best is lying to yourself that you have been investing in the S-Fund and that you will be timing later this year :nuts: all to get to a million dollar TSP account.

All we need are some dancing elephants in pink tutus
 
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First you should understand that I am older than dirt - that makes me eligible for the $5,000 catch up. Add in the 5% match and redo the math. The majority of my DCAs provided me more than 50 shares at a time - some up to 58 shares - every DCA leverages on itself when the market is in a bull mode. All my DCAs for this year are now behind me never to be bought again at those prices. I was hoping to pull down a few more DCAs in the $14.00 range but those prices are gone and soon the $15.00 range will be gone. This will eventually put me in a more active position trader mode. Got a nice set of dual perl handled shooters - volatility is going to increase and this should provide ample opportunity to target practice. I'll show you how it's done if you stick.
 
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Gee just picked up another 90 hits - hey you guys with the 25th Infantry Division doing the reading? You must know my 1lt daughter is deployed with you in Iraq.

Griffin,

You have no history to surmise your bulltinky opinions. Let me help. I IFT'd out of the C fund in 1/2001 into the available S fund - stayed with it on a DCA basis until 2/2004. Made a IFT back to the C fund and have been there ever since. I've been C fund for years and years. Now if I were to tell you how much money I've made in the last 5 months you'd simply say I was being mendacious. So I'll refrain from depressing you. So I've probably been investing before you were born - seen many like you flame out. So be careful how you handle your money - just my friendly advice. Nothing wrong with being a rider on the storm. Noel.
 
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I may call you a lot of things...but I can guarantee that I will never call you mendacious :D .

You already mentioned you've made 100K on 1.2M worth of investments. Care to revise your estimates. That's an impressive 8.3% for the year. I can only imagine what it would be if you did not have to pay transactions fees on 190 stocks. Maybe you could sit down with your gagillion page statement and figure that out for us.

Now if I were to tell you how much money I've made in the last 5 months you'd simply say I was being mendacious.
 
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