First of all you have to play. You are here everyday and already our eFriend . After Christmas I start busting knee caps on other threads and make people play. 
- Fenders53
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Well this might be fun. I have not played the "Total Return" game in years. My portfolio is old stodgy and pretty consistent. Just slow and steady plods along. Though we can all be surprised from time to time I can pretty well gauge how my portfolio is going to react overall under different Market conditions. It never achieves the highs of market highs, but also never experience the lows of Market lows, Bull or Bear.
But if I'm going to play (I do need whats left of my rickety old knees) I'm going to put some money where my picks are. I will Invest 1000.00 real monies per investment selection. This way I can have fun tracking "real life total return" investments, and bore everyone here whining on how pitiful my selections were at the beginning of the year through all of 2022
Only 5 securities will be tough, 7-10 would have taken a bit of the pressure off , But 5 it is!!.
I'm not overly competitive (except when it comes to the Packers) so I will not worry so much about winning. I plan to stick to my wheelhouse and avoid CEF's, NFT's, REIT'S, MLP's, BDC's, Crypto and any other non dividend payers, and stick to what I believe to be my somewhat sphere of competence. So now I guess I have more homework to do (aside from if I was going to add PSX as a long term investment in 2022), having to consider totally different Total return type metrics (for the sake of my knee caps !!!) .....
- Scoot
- Fenders53>
Well this might be fun. I have not played the "Total Return" game in years. My portfolio is old stodgy and pretty consistent. Just slow and steady plods along. Though we can all be surprised from time to time I can pretty well gauge how my portfolio is going to react overall under different Market conditions. It never achieves the highs of market highs, but also never experience the lows of Market lows, Bull or Bear.
But if I'm going to play (I do need whats left of my rickety old knees) I'm going to put some money where my picks are. I will Invest 1000.00 real monies per investment selection. This way I can have fun tracking "real life total return" investments, and bore everyone here whining on how pitiful my selections were at the beginning of the year through all of 2022
Only 5 securities will be tough, 7-10 would have taken a bit of the pressure off , But 5 it is!!.
I'm not overly competitive (except when it comes to the Packers) so I will not worry so much about winning. I plan to stick to my wheelhouse and avoid CEF's, NFT's, REIT'S, MLP's, BDC's, Crypto and any other non dividend payers, and stick to what I believe to be my somewhat sphere of competence. So now I guess I have more homework to do (aside from if I was going to add PSX as a long term investment in 2022), having to consider totally different Total return type metrics (for the sake of my knee caps !!!) .....
- Scoot