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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: InParadise   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Why I started using ETFs
Date: 12/24/22 1:30 PM
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I can only wish you and your family to stay healthy! And avoid buses...

Ah! Humor used well in a foreign language tells me you do just fine with English!

Your post makes sense to me, and I confess I loved my brief stint of mechanical investing, but volatility is not the friend of a successful marriage in this family. The ups were more numerous than the downs, giving us a very nice end to one heck of an investing roller coaster ride via mechanical investing, but DH is not particularly a fan of volatility. Only vanilla investing from here on out, no shorting of stock. With no earned income to resupply buying power in case of a down market, retirement investing for us must be more conservative.

It's very cool however how two people look to use indexing in very different ways.

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