who is "they" and who that posts on et would not see right through that scam? Hopefully by age 50 most of the money is not tax sheltered and nobody in their right mind would pay cap gains to sell stocks and buy bonds. But at age 50 you are probably 100% stocks and that is a time to back off a little bit, regardless of how the stock or bond market looks.
they refers to greedy financial advisors and their clientele. with a life expectancy of 30 years it is not even a consideration.
The Last Time Bond Bears Were This Short, Treasury Yields Collapsed http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-16/last-time-bond-bears-were-short-treasury-yields-collapsed
I have not been buying T-Bonds, I been shorting them several times on this new leg up and hedged-repeatedly stops get hit, debit Call spread kicks in, automation then looks for new area to short like triple highs this morning on two minute. Been also shorting few of the other financials. One of the MAJOR problems going to be about shorting, if and when Indexes take a huge tumble, Financials will just keep going higher, one of problems of my Long Term system that trade on extremes, but it long term works for me. You have to believe in your own stats. Longer I trade, thinking I have figured out some clever way to sell ticks from some top, just wonder if it really matters in long run where at all the price becomes. When you scalp like the ES, where you get in does mean much more than long term, but all boils down to risk management and how to figure out way to keep rollover more contract months and stay in to capture entire move which might take years to complete, I suppose that is why I love longer term more than scalping. Or maybe I have not fully taken advantage of every smaller move I can add onto longer term. I think it harder to be long term Commodity trader than day trader, as much of it is sitting on your hands, you did all the work on Trading Plan and no matter what, we just enter trades and wait.
Hmm. Let me thinkee here. Bunds were 2% a few years back. Dey at zero now no? Me thinkee anything Europe can do, we can do betta.
depends on how vast the world of negative rates is. Someday you'll be telling your grandchildren, "When I was your age we use to get paid for loaning money."