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Yet another bay area resident. My two cents. Well when I first came here in 2006 (height of real estate boom here) I did all the rent Vs buy calculations, RRK had an excellent excel spread sheet (from the old msn forums? I think) and declared it was insane to buy. Around 2010-11 the equation has ...

I have decided to invest in Sundaram midcap as well (via parents). I am debating whether I should wait for them to open the payment gateway or buy from HDFC/ICICI for now.. Any one call them to find out when they going to open the direct payment gateway? thanks -dink [QUOTE=RRK;82003]Dont mix the ...

Definitely not a guru but finally I started buying stocks recently after almost 3 months. I don't recommend any one what I do since I have only had big losses last year and this year on my individual stock purchase! May be I am the contrarian indicator :) My individual stock port is small percentage ...

Hi Desi,

What is the PFIC risk that you talk of, when investing in grand parents name?

Thanks
dink

hawapani, I am not Bobus/desi but : - If you are not aware, you can deduct up to $3000 dollars of capital losses from your income. So if you have any capital loss on a stock or fund, perhaps it is time to take advantage of it. Learn about wash sale rules if you want to buy it back. - You will ...

New ETF for India

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dink

Just calculated my last years return on my individual stock portfolio (outside of the index funds). It is my first losing year since I started investing in individual stocks 4 years ago . I lost BIG! close to 25%! That hurts... 80% of the losses are due to DNDN. I shouldn't call it investing but it ...

BTW did any member get an Advanced Ruling on whether only accruals in an IRA get taxed and not withdrawals during ROR? The previous threads seem to indicate that some members asked for it but not sure if they got it

thanks
dink

IMHO Chinese stocks are in bubble mode. My prediction is that it will burst badly after next years Olympics. That might be a good time to buy. As of now no position. dink [QUOTE=RRK;50565]Did any one check FXI price lately ? It was less than $100 in March and yesterday it touched $200. [URL]http ...

1000 for goog? that would make it bigger than MSFT and make it 3rd largest company in US behind XOM and GE based on market cap. Not impossible. but truly mind boggling... dink [QUOTE=bangsearch;50101]i just catch up with cramer on his show. i do not invest based on cramer. but 4 horsemen is a good ...