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What To Do When The Bitcoin Math Doesn't Math

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I had a very lucky purchase in late 2018 and although I have rearranged how/where I own it, I haven't sold. First, is the math right based on my numbers? I'd be curious to hear if anyone else does the same search and finds a different number of lost coins. How much Bitcoin, if any, do you own. How can it solve anyone's problem?

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Looking At The Smartest ETF In The Room

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's other math about outperformance but also the observation that momentum is prone to crashes. The momentum funds also did not provide early warning for the downturn in late 2018. One interesting nugget from the paper is that dramatically improving momentum only resulted in an increase to beta of 0.2%. Here's the last year.

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Did Barron's Just Undercut Every Article It Has Ever Published?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In the case of real estate a 2.29% weighting and for "private equity" companies it's about 17 basis points (looked at XLF holdings and then did a little math), that's just not going to move the needle. You may agree with Jack about not needing those things, that's valid, my point is that owning an index fund isn't a proxy for them.

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Bruce Dickinson Says "I Gotta Have More Trend!"

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Turns out the math checks out using Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 equities/fixed income portfolio and the Guggenheim Managed Futures Strategy Fund (RYMFX). It did even less during the Christmas Crash of 2018 when VBAIX dropped 12.6% in that same 2018 event. percentage points. Giving up 1.5%

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Can Return Stacking With NTSX Work?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DBC also went down in the 2018 Christmas Crash again, taking longer to come back. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% I imagine the effect there is both stocks and commodities are both pro-cyclical. Not that long commodities exposure is a bad thing, I just don't think it works in this context.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. So a phenomenal learning experience with both Jefferies and Morgan Stanley.

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