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JTH's Account Talk
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JTH
TSP Legend
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Still 25% S-fund & as of 17 September down .94%
Now that I've opened up a Roth IRA to trade with, I'll be taking a less a active role in my TSP account. With my new account, I'll be going long with a buy and hold approach with some stops in place to avoid the big pitfalls.
Within TSP, it's just too hard to beat the market. I'm not saying it can't be done, but with 2 IFTs and having to settle on the end of day price, I've had better luck at the Craps tables in Vegas... At this point I won't be able to recover this year's loses.
For those of you beating the markets, you should be proud of what you've done under these circumstances. And I want to thank each and every one of you. I've learned so much from everyone here and I'm taking what I've learned and applying it to the market outside of TSP.
Cheers... JTH
Now that I've opened up a Roth IRA to trade with, I'll be taking a less a active role in my TSP account. With my new account, I'll be going long with a buy and hold approach with some stops in place to avoid the big pitfalls.
Within TSP, it's just too hard to beat the market. I'm not saying it can't be done, but with 2 IFTs and having to settle on the end of day price, I've had better luck at the Craps tables in Vegas... At this point I won't be able to recover this year's loses.
For those of you beating the markets, you should be proud of what you've done under these circumstances. And I want to thank each and every one of you. I've learned so much from everyone here and I'm taking what I've learned and applying it to the market outside of TSP.
Cheers... JTH
RonUSPSretired
Market Tracker
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What brokerage firm did you go with for your Roth IRA and what factors influenced that decision. Any advice would be helpful as I research my own move in that direction.--Ron
Still 25% S-fund & as of 17 September down .94%
Now that I've opened up a Roth IRA to trade with, I'll be taking a less a active role in my TSP account. With my new account, I'll be going long with a buy and hold approach with some stops in place to avoid the big pitfalls.
Within TSP, it's just too hard to beat the market. I'm not saying it can't be done, but with 2 IFTs and having to settle on the end of day price, I've had better luck at the Craps tables in Vegas... At this point I won't be able to recover this year's loses.
For those of you beating the markets, you should be proud of what you've done under these circumstances. And I want to thank each and every one of you. I've learned so much from everyone here and I'm taking what I've learned and applying it to the market outside of TSP.
Cheers... JTH
JTH
TSP Legend
- Reaction score
- 1,133
I actually opened up a ROTH IRA through my USAA account. The trades aren't cheap (13.95) but I didn't need to have thousands of dollars to open the account.
The reason I opened the account is that I wanted more flexability and choices. I also wanted to actively manage my account in "real time" instead of the 2 IFT limit and dealing with the end of day prices.
ShowMe has an account I've been watching for months, he helped give me the motivation I needed.
RonUSPSretired
Market Tracker
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JTH
TSP Legend
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Your welcome Ron. I've bought and sold AIG twice, just to kick the tires. It seems to work fine, but please keep in mind I have nothing (experience wise) to compare it to. But since I already do all my banking with USAA, it's easy to transfer money and the account took 5 minutes to set up and a day for the transfer of money to go through.
Birchtree
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The lifting of dark clouds could result in the mother of all short covering rallies. It seems that shortly greed will replace fear as the market's overriding theme for the rest of 2008 - get me in at any price. Brother watch the hedge funds trample each other trying to get back in this market all going through the same door at once. I'm reminded that all rallies are preceded by declines...the bigger the decline the bigger the rally. Smoke'em big time.
Corepuncher
TSP Pro
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- 40
justbizness45
Analyst
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