Valkyrie's Account Talk

[Valkyrie]

S Fund, the Force is strong in this one.

 

[Valkyrie]

Should wearing masks publicly be a national requirement in 2021?

Some reports to think about.

https://noqreport.com/2020/11/18/th...o-impact-protecting-wearers-against-covid-19/

https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/

https://fee.org/articles/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19/

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2020/1...ows-wearing-masks-didnt-help-for-july-n262186

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...science-turns-against-americas-mask-fascists/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/03/masks-are-another-way-to-control-society-through-isolation/

 

[Valkyrie]

downturn in 1/21?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2021...ts-are-a-sign-of-whats-to-come-141645928.html

 

[Valkyrie]

another call for downturn in 1/21

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...k-market-correction-11609158087?mod=home-page

With just a handful of trading days before the year finishes, our call of the day says investors need to brace for a bumpy start to 2021 if we close out the year with stock-market records.
“Market historians looking back to another incredible year—1999—in which the S&P 500 closed the year at a new all-time high, will recall that the initial few days of the year 2000 saw a vicious correction. Yes, times were different, and the focus then was on Y2K and the concentrated bubble of the time, but investors need a reminder that even during major bull market runs, one can see significant setbacks,” Hardy said, in a note to clients that published Monday.

 

[Valkyrie]

Crazy stock markets rise to hide the coup until the world wide financial crash comes upon us, like a thief in the night.
Prepare for the worst, Pray for mercy.

 

[Valkyrie]

100G cob

 

[Valkyrie]

If you had any doubt about whether or not the new Biden administration would look for radical new ways to grab more money...

Look no further.

Last week, Biden's new Treasury Secretary discussed a proposal that is sending shockwaves through the financial industry.
Janet Yellen (former head of the Fed and current Biden nominee to head the Treasury) dropped a bombshell on U.S. investors when she said she will consider proposals to tax "unrealized gains" in the stock market.
In other words...
You might soon pay taxes on all your stock market gains... year after year... even if you never plan to sell!

 

[FAAM]

Looking back I think such "desperate governments have been doing desperate things" for the last 4 years especially, the last 16 to 20 years certainly, even the last 40 or so years.

 

[Valkyrie]

100S COB

 

[Valkyrie]

last I checked doesn't blackrock manage the TSP funds? they are getting paid millions so why don't they send us TSP members/owners reports instead of just to barrons?

Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of BlackRock's $2.4 trillion global fixed-income group and co-manager of the BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio (BASIX), knows that investors can no longer trust the traditional approach. As he recently told Barron's...

If you are holding the same portfolio as two years ago and expect it to do the same, it won't. You have to restructure how you think about asset allocation, especially fixed income.
​

Ben Inker, head of asset allocation for prominent money manager GMO, concurs. In the firm's second-quarter letter to its clients last year, Inker noted that...

All portfolios that include government bonds have both lower expected returns and higher risk than anyone had a right to expect them to have previously.
​

So with the old playbook becoming obsolete, what should investors do now?
Back in October, living legend Howard Marks published a valuable essay called "Coming Into Focus." In it, Marks reasoned that the Federal Reserve's insistence on keeping interest rates near zero for the foreseeable future leaves investors like us with five less-than-ideal options...

1. Invest as you always have (meaning 40% in bonds) and settle for today's low returns

1. Reduce risk in the face of today's uncertainty and accept even-lower returns

1. Go to cash at a near-zero return and wait for a better environment

1. Increase risk in pursuit of higher returns

1. Put more into special niches and special investment managers

For most investors, settling for lower returns or going entirely to cash – when the Fed has made it abundantly clear that near-zero rates will be the norm for years – simply makes no sense. That means the fourth and fifth items on the list are your only real options today.

 

[Bullitt]

Looks like his fund is still at least 30% in cash, cash equivalent, and bonds.

https://www.blackrock.com/us/indivi...-allocation-fund-usd-mtd-commentary-en-us.pdf

Any professional money manager knows the niche part of the portfolio means 5-10%. Back in the day that meant allocate maybe 5-10% to gold or REIT's. People nowadays take that as the green light to dump half their life savings into a recent stock/asset class ETF that has done well.

 

[Valkyrie]

back to G COB with huge loses, weeks of work gone in a few days.

Lieden sucks along with his UN comrades.

 

[Valkyrie]

back in 50C 50S cob

 

[Valkyrie]

The "TSP Talk Poll" should have "I don't care" to check off, so at least i can see the results.

 

[rangerray]

The "TSP Talk Poll" should have "I don't care" to check off, so at least i can see the results.

You and me both. I follow zero sports. Sports are the least important thing in my life.

 

[Valkyrie]

You and me both. I follow zero sports. Sports are the least important thing in my life.

if only people would realize all of the increase costs in their lives due to paying millions upon millions to these prima donnas in salaries.
yo people where do u think the money comes from to pay them to play a game.

 

[Valkyrie]

is a rotation back into the russel and our S fund starting today? tomorrow will tell. still holding 50C and 50S. one move left to set up for may.

 

[mmk119]

i'm in a wait and see hold for now. out of IFT till next month.

 

[tsptalk]

is a rotation back into the russel and our S fund starting today? tomorrow will tell. still holding 50C and 50S. one move left to set up for may.

Looks like a nice relief rally, but I'm wondering if it's going to flail around in this right shoulder for a few days before we know the next bigger direction.

 

[Valkyrie]

new TSP security system sucks. they send the code to my phone voice message. caller ID shows it is TSP, it rings I pick up, get dial tone. so I go to resend on the site. "Sorry too many attempts to log in, account is blocked for one hour". usually I wait two rings before I picked up their call. one ring they hang up on u and lock u out for an hour.

and why did they stop the email pass code? they think too easy to have a fake email? hey high IQ tsp and this includes navy credit union who also did away with the email code, people get fake phone numbers all of the time. can buy a throw away phone most places.
is it me?