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To: Mattyice who wrote (55378)	6/8/2015 12:37:48 AM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	1 Recommendation Recommended By Spekulatius Respond to of 78728

OT: I also struggle with being a younger single guy and managing my growing cash position from my professional life. I have spoken with a few of you in the past few years privately ( and a special public thanks to EKS for always answering my questions trying to guide this directionless boat - just a true wealth of wisdom and a gem to be a loyal member on this board). My main issue i struggle with is portfolio sizing and it seems to be anything but consistent. I seem to walk the line of one part of my portfolio being very concentrated (ie gold miners, chine/india etf, and my various shorts) and one part of it being more diverse with smaller positions in companies that I like. This might not answer your question, but: how long have you been investing and what is your performance like? (You don't have to answer publicly if you don't want to). In short, if a person has been investing for 5+ years and have not been outperforming SP500, they are likely better of in index fund. If they are outperforming SP500, I don't think they have "portfolio sizing" issues. ;) If a person is underperforming, but still wants to continue active investing, they should ask really hard questions about their methodology, investments, and possibly sizing decisions too. Good luck. :)