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Re: Technical Correction 
I'm just posting to keep myself honest. Vwehx slipped
a penny below its 35-day moving average yesterday,
so I exchanged out 1/3 of my shares to vfstx, a st
corp bond fund. About 1/2 my...
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2-Feb-10 11:25 am |
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Re: Market correction?
marketskeptic: "If interest rates. . ." Yes,
there is a mathematic relation between rate change,
price change and duration. Changes in the shape of
the yield curve and the size of spreads are...
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ucbme |
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22-Jan-10 06:50 am |
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Re: Bond Mutual Fund Liquidity Ratios At Historic Highs
wow! really fits in with your previously cited article.
My guess is that, like me, because of low mm, cd and
savings rates, people are chasing yield. Traditio
nal...
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ucbme |
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7-Jan-10 11:12 am |
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Re: good selling points?
oshmangh: 1) just riding the bull short term? 2) where
does the money go? 1) yes 2) vfstx I've got nothing
against vwehx; I'm not suggesting anyone copy.
Sale fits my situation. (note on the...
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ucbme |
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7-Jan-10 10:40 am |
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Re: good selling points?
I agree, altaskiman. And in the case of vfstx, for
example, 1/2 of the tiny principle loss would be recouped
in year 1 as increased interest payments.
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ucbme |
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5-Jan-10 04:31 pm |
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Re: good selling points?
altaskiman: relative performance if rates rise The
duration of vwehx holdings is a shade more than 4
years; for vfstx, it is a shade less than 2 years.
So, a 1% rise in...
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ucbme |
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1-Jan-10 06:58 pm |
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Re: good selling points?
derrilp: joins pwhz in discouraging a fixed high as
a selling point. Yes, I agree that a more flexible
number would be better. Since, vwehx is...
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ucbme |
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31-Dec-09 08:33 am |
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Re: good selling points?
pwhz, good point, I'll give that some thought.
I've just been taken by that notion of a sea change
in the markets and so that old resistance point seemed
to have a meaning that...
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ucbme |
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30-Dec-09 06:50 pm |
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Re: good selling points?
dcnams1: "you might be trying to be too fine on
the selling point(s)" You may very well be right.
Still, a similar approach was worth a few percentage
points in my first sale. Perhaps mistakenly...
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ucbme |
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30-Dec-09 06:45 pm |
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good selling points?
I have a specific plan in mind for closing my position
in vwehx with two sales, but its not fixed in stone
and I'd appreciate comments. In the first sale,
1/3 of balance would be...
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ucbme |
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29-Dec-09 12:09 pm |
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Re: Interesting article
I thought the article put together a number of excellent
points to suggest that a sea change is occurring in
general attitudes toward investing...
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ucbme |
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23-Dec-09 10:30 pm |
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Re: Tradable Correction?
stevebrooks Good observations, I think. About 15% of
my bond allocation is still high yield. I think that
niterunner's second paragraph was just as good
as his first.
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ucbme |
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20-Dec-09 10:43 am |
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Re: Tradable Correction?
rightstuff, m&a activity: I wish I could remember where
I recently read that high-yield alpha derived from
from buying investment-grade issues that had been
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ucbme |
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20-Dec-09 09:59 am |
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Re: Tradable Correction?
marketskeptic: why vfstx? I've used the short-term
corporate bond fund as a little higher paying/higher
risk alternative to a money market fund for a long
time. This tactic blew up in 2008, but...
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ucbme |
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19-Dec-09 07:28 pm |
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Re: Tradable Correction?
Almost as planned, I rebalance my portfolio today by
exchanging about 25% of vwehx to vfstx in a tax-deferred
account. (thx all for comments, esp pwhz) I say ALMOST
as planned because...
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ucbme |
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18-Dec-09 10:42 pm |
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Re: Strange Fund
"vwehx's recent price movement reminds me
of the lassitude that [many] fund prices often seemed
to assume in olden times as yearend approached. It
was as though they...
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ucbme |
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3-Dec-09 07:54 am |
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Re: Strange Fund
I forgot to remind that my post more implied a question
than stated an answer. I'd still be interested
in reading any thoughts. If, for example, many...
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ucbme |
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2-Dec-09 07:52 pm |
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Re: Strange Fund
Rossman: “compare it to another open end fund” Your
wish is my command: prhyx and sphix were the first
2 that I could think of. http://finance.yahoo.com
/echarts?s=VWEHX#chart2:symbol=vwehx;range=1m;comp
are=prhyx+sphix...
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2-Dec-09 07:38 pm |
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Re: Strange Fund
Attached is a chart comparing vwehx to hyg and jnk.
Any other funds would have served as well, I think.
If I were in the hospital and my monitors...
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ucbme |
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2-Dec-09 03:12 pm |
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Re: Over inflated bond prices
Blairdhff: “Any other opinions on this? Jason Zweig’s
Intelligent Investor column at wsj.com dated 11/28,
finds spreads still favor junk bonds; their yields
offer...
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ucbme |
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28-Nov-09 12:23 am |
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