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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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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: FlyingCircus   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Decision Moose
Date: 01/03/23 11:08 PM
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Wow, blast from the past. I even remembered the original guy's name - Bill Dirlam...
interesting, he sold it to QuantStreet several years ago but still apparently writes for it...
the original history/results going back to the 90s is gone, just the last 5 (running?) years...

a few different approaches, less global asset allocation focus and more detailed US asset-class/approach focused... only the "US Timing" model significantly outperformed the S&P this year, but the Moosistories doesn't include past years' S&P results (could look it up of course)...

Perhaps the best adaptive mechanical investing quote I've seen in a long time: (about the post-2009 Fed-QE1/2/3/N driven market...

"This led me to the inevitable realization that no portfolio management strategy is perfect for every place, time, and person' not active market timing, not passive buy-and-hold, and not any variant of the two.

In short, when the financial environment and/or one's personal circumstances change, strategic approach must change. "


So now he has 3 different "universes".

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