Comments on: Some Minor Rebalancing: Bought XRB http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/ Not just another (Canadian) financial blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dave http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6977 Dave Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:34:52 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6977 Well for me I am just buying stocks, not selling, so I can keep my commissions under some percentage level of the initial purchase price. You are buying and selling by the sounds of it. So if you are making 10 times as many trades as I am making then your commission will be around 1-2% of your initial investment. That's just roughly speaking, but I'm just trying to say that your 0.1%-0.2% figure cannot be compared to my 1% figure in a apples-to-apples way. How do you know if "there is better money to be made elsewhere?" Do you believe that the market is not totally efficient? Well for me I am just buying stocks, not selling, so I can keep my commissions under some percentage level of the initial purchase price. You are buying and selling by the sounds of it. So if you are making 10 times as many trades as I am making then your commission will be around 1-2% of your initial investment. That’s just roughly speaking, but I’m just trying to say that your 0.1%-0.2% figure cannot be compared to my 1% figure in a apples-to-apples way.

How do you know if “there is better money to be made elsewhere?” Do you believe that the market is not totally efficient?

]]> By: Deborah http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6976 Deborah Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:51:07 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6976 I have very different investment philosophy. I constantly reassess my portfolio and valuation for individual stocks. If they make a good move I especially re-evaluate them and assess if there is better money to be made else-where. I paid $10/trade and my strategy has enabled me to always have free money so I can go $5-10k on a trade, making the trading costs $0.1-$0.2%. It completely sets me free of consideration of trading costs in a decision to buy or sell. I have very different investment philosophy.

I constantly reassess my portfolio and valuation for individual stocks. If they make a good move I especially re-evaluate them and assess if there is better money to be made else-where.

I paid $10/trade and my strategy has enabled me to always have free money so I can go $5-10k on a trade, making the trading costs $0.1-$0.2%. It completely sets me free of consideration of trading costs in a decision to buy or sell.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6970 Thomas Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:22:24 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2007/07/11/some-minor-rebalancing-bought-xrb/#comment-6970 I completely sympathize with the problem of trying to rebalance without getting killed on trading costs. Do you have a view on inflation? I completely sympathize with the problem of trying to rebalance without getting killed on trading costs. Do you have a view on inflation?

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