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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend Growth Investing and chit chat. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chowder who wrote (1412)	12/5/2021 7:01:41 PM
From: stardusting	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2146

I think you should consider that and index ETF like SPY is internally changing the companies within the index and also their weightings based on capitalization. So while doing nothing and incurring little in the way of taxes, the index manages itself.

To: chowder who wrote (1412)	12/6/2021 5:22:48 AM
From: LuisG	4 Recommendations Recommended By Dave the wildpitcher jvincen2 rnsmth The Beard Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2146

Hi Chowder, Let's try to demonstrate if I've learned something from you all these years (hope so). >>How do you define "best results"?<< Well, many people define results comparing with the market (wigan 4 is one of them as he tries to beat the SP500). BUT, I know the results should be according to the objectives one marks. 1.- How much do you need?. 2.- When do you need them?. 3.- How sure are you will accomplish them? So the best results will vary depending on the age and objectives of the investor. Anyway, I must say that the SP500 high returns the last 5 years have made many people think about indexing as the best way of invest (specially if you're in the market not as many years as you). >>What time frame do you use for best results?<< 10 years. I think it's enough time for a company to demonstrate if it's going up, down or doing nothing at all. Although the last 10 years have been a rally up (in USA, not in Europe, not in Spain). The Chowder formula uses 5 year dividend-growth-rate and sometimes I've seen use 10 years to be more accurate. >> if we are required to monitor and change doesn't that require us to have some basic knowledge skills on how to manage a portfolio?<< That's why I said about recommend 5 books to read in order to learn the basics. The big part comes with experience and forums like this one. ¿My books? The ones you told us time ago. - The Ultimate Dividend Playbook (Josh Peters). - The Single Best Investment (Lowell Miller) mhinvest.com - DaveVK 's book (I do prefer this one to "Dividends Still don't Lie"). - One of Taleb's books. "Fooled by randomness" is a good one. To understand that luck is very important also. - The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (Bogle). The sixth one would be YOUR book (waiting for it). Meanwhile, we have the 3 PDF Eric Landis made with Joni Repasch documents. >>isn't that what most 401K's invest in?<< I know about 401K because of reading in the Chit-Chat blog. It's sad to say in Spain, actually, we have nothing like that, and the communist government is taking away all saving ways to the future. >>so for young people I simply want something that will be steady, reliable and provide a respectable rate of return for giving no effort in managing the positions.<< I really like this sentence. My 5 stocks would be: - JNJ - HD - MSFT - UNH - NEE Well, that's all I think I could share. It's difficult for me writing in English in a fluent manner so I hope it's understandable.