Get a loan at 4% to invest long term in the Dow Jones?

What you think?

Get a loan at 4% to invest long term (at least 3 years) in the Dow Jones?
Buying DIA ETFs.

I forgot to clarify:
This is NOT a personal loan.
It's a loan for an investment company.

 

on behalf of stock_turd3r, i hereby declare this is the best idea ever posted on ET.

 

Horrible Idea. In 5 years we will likely be even lower than we are now.

 

Thanks for the laugh.

 

Actually, it might not be such a bad idea, what with the printing press running at capacity. If it keeps going, Dow in nominal terms might just go to the moon and nothing beats being a borrower when inflation's high.

 

What I think? I think you are extremely desperate. What you are doing is a carry trade with the Cash/DIA "currency" pair, which is always risky. Value investors don't do this, by the way.

 

This is a terrific idea. Leverage is a wonderful tool, the more the better.

And you have a nice house which I'd like to buy in foreclosure.

 

How do I take the other side of this trade?

 

You can lend me money at 4%.

What size can you do? I am interested...

 

What does the word likely mean?

Do you have psychic abilities?