Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
I'm glad to see you've decided you know what *I'm* doing. Thank you for being pompous enough to assume you know me.
I do not presume to know what you are doing. My comment was that if you say you haven't lost money in the stock market since 2002, that is not saying alot. 2002 was a market bottom, and if you have lost money between then and now you have radically underformed the overall market -- and yes, you should definitely consider other kinds of investing.

Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
Honestly I'm not going to go into the details of my portfolio performance. For one it is none of your business and secondly you will find some reason to try to call me out as a liar simply because I know how to invest. I will say this; you're right since October I have not performed particularly well; especially since I'm S&P heavy and I took quite a few hits there; however YTD I am still on top by more than the rate of inflation.
I certainly respect your right not to discuss your personal finances, but you are the one who brought it up. You have significantly more than $20k invested, and you haven't lost money since 2002 and you tooks some hits since last october, but you are still ahead YTD --- me too! On all points! We are like investment twins!