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<p>[QUOTE="Phil Ham, post: 3287210, member: 5787"]As the new year is upon us, I thought it was a good time to update the various investment categories from last year (2018). It wasn't a good year for most investments. The Dow Jones dropped 5.6%, the S&P 500 dropped 6.2%, the Nasdaq dropped 3.9%, and silver dropped 8.4%. I invest in many categories and lost also in real estate ETF's (about 4% loss) and Euro Pacific funds (about 10% loss). The Euro Pacific funds were especially bad as they struggled also with a strong US dollar. My only positive gains were in the cash, money market, and bond markets. My best performance came from I-bonds that I purchased over a decade ago and they were only about 3.5%. Overall, my rather risky portfolio was down about 6.5%, which was the 5th worst performance in the past 26 years. It was one of the few years that it was safer to have your money under your pillow. The inflation rate was about 2.5% in 2018, which may rise a little depending on the CPI from December. Thus, my total loss is 9.0% (6.5% plus the 2.5%), which doesn't include the capital gains taxes on my non-tax deferred investments. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the dataset from 1980 to present including a chart:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869031[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Chart from 1980.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869032[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Ham, post: 3287210, member: 5787"]As the new year is upon us, I thought it was a good time to update the various investment categories from last year (2018). It wasn't a good year for most investments. The Dow Jones dropped 5.6%, the S&P 500 dropped 6.2%, the Nasdaq dropped 3.9%, and silver dropped 8.4%. I invest in many categories and lost also in real estate ETF's (about 4% loss) and Euro Pacific funds (about 10% loss). The Euro Pacific funds were especially bad as they struggled also with a strong US dollar. My only positive gains were in the cash, money market, and bond markets. My best performance came from I-bonds that I purchased over a decade ago and they were only about 3.5%. Overall, my rather risky portfolio was down about 6.5%, which was the 5th worst performance in the past 26 years. It was one of the few years that it was safer to have your money under your pillow. The inflation rate was about 2.5% in 2018, which may rise a little depending on the CPI from December. Thus, my total loss is 9.0% (6.5% plus the 2.5%), which doesn't include the capital gains taxes on my non-tax deferred investments. Here is the dataset from 1980 to present including a chart: [ATTACH=full]869031[/ATTACH] Chart from 1980. [ATTACH=full]869032[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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