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With so many people buying right now, its a renters market for those who choose to be so you might have low competition for rental properties. You sh...
@membar What is the point of owning the TQQQ/UPRO etfs vs doing the same strategy with futures yourself? You could save almost $100k in fees every de...
@earlyretirementnowcom I tried back testing a strategy similar to this this with 1990-present data for those in the contribution phase. It was basica...
@navypack Both! I think the stimulus + fed keeping rates low & buying bonds will continue to slowly levitate the stock market until there's some u...
@earlyretirementnowcom Yeah not an expert either but I always assumed the intent of the straddles section is for people who fully hedge their position...
Imagine what it was like when it was <15 for most of 2013-2019 except for a few spikes. It even was briefly under 10 in 2017! I would imagine it w...
Sorry I misread your answer, disregard "how could preferred be taxed more than muni's?"
@nobatmanjokes Just curious, how could preferred be taxed more than muni's?
@fi4wanderlust Seems like a very reasonable plan. Personally, I'm a little more risk adverse with my margin cash and hold more treasuries than others ...
@fi4wanderlust Its definitely improvement in terms of expenses and interest rate risk over the other funds but if you're holding >$10k in a preferr...
@earlyretirementnowcom One would have been "safe" selling puts just before 9/11/01 which dropped 7.4% when it reopened a week later since the VIX happ...
@fi4wanderlust I used VXO (VIX predecessor) data to go back even further, the worst <20 VXO was 10/11/89 had a 6.5% drop with VXO of 16.73. Another...
I ended up looking it up myself, I counted 13 times (just looking at MWF close-to-close changes not factoring holidays). Biggest 2 day drop was 5.6% ...
@fi4wanderlust Wow that's a really interesting stat. Care to share what dates they were/what was the biggest loss? One thing to note is that sometim...
If your portfolio appreciates substantially and you "ratchet up" but are still within a 100% SWR such as 3% with an 80/20 portfolio, you actually shou...