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Valuable investment wisdom = don't put more than 2 - 3% of your total capital into any single idea - no matter how compelling it seems to be at the time. Don't speculate if it keeps you up at night.
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1/ Scared by today's decline ? Only a few weeks until the market enters it's best 24 month period of the "4 year Presidential term cycle".
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3/ Prior to the banking and economic fixes put into place during the Great Depression,1930 was the worst Mid term July starting period ( maybe not SO bad for the "40/60" ). Yet, even going back to the 5 periods starting July 1910, decent forward 24 month returns were produced !
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4/ Is it another "1930" ? Highly doubtful. Holding the "40/60" portfolio and the QQQ over these periods has been pretty much of a "no brainer".
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With inflation running hot in 2026, a 50/50 mix of small & large "value" stocks is following historical precedent in being a decent inflation hedge - with a YTD return of 12%. Since 1940 forward 5 year real returns have been positive starting years when CPI > 6%
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Over the past century, major market manias have tended to trace out strikingly similar price‑path analogues — and Bitcoin appears to be following that same analogue. After the big decline in February/March, has it consolidated within and be breaking down out of the red circle ?
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The price path for $BTC may be following the generic price path of typical manias that have occurred over the last 100 years. It appears that a decisive break of the 11/21/25 price of $84k would mirror past mania price action. Is BTC breaking out of the red circle ?
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3/ So even if the market declines in the 1st half of 2026, 90 years of historical evidence shows a high confidence of 24 month positive market returns starting July 2026
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2/ And when the market produced a "decline" in the "1st half "of mid term years ( 26% of occurrences ), S&P 500 returns were even higher, on average, over forward 24 month periods.
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1/ In July 2026, the market enters it's best 24 month period of the "4 year Presidential term cycle". Since 1942, starting July of "Mid term" years, forward 24 month S&P 500 returns have been positive 21 consecutive times. And since 1986, Nasdaq 100/QQQ returns 10 consecutive.
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1/ In July 2026, the market enters it's best 24 month period of the "4 year Presidential term cycle". Since 1942, starting July of "Mid term" years, forward 24 month S&P 500 returns have been positive 21 consecutive times. And since 1986, Nasdaq 100/QQQ returns 10 consecutive.
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2/ Since 1986, a portfolio of small & large "value" stocks (via ETFs) and the Nasdaq100/QQQ has produced almost 2X the returns of the S&P500 and 4X the returns of the Total World Market Index, with equivalent risk, over ten rolling 30 yr periods Chart 1 tinyurl.com/5h9fvw3n .

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1/ PLTR the story of the week. A basic insight : is in the portfolio of the Nasdaq 100 / QQQ.
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6/ Past "catalysts" that promoted further market weakness were : - Bear Stearns / Lehman Bros. trouble / banking crisis - deflating tech bubble / 9/11 - price controls / OPEC oil crisis - Smoot- Hawley tariffs / shrinking money supply / bank failures
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3/ 3rd years of those 5 year returns strings have produced average single-digit positive returns ( 8%) with "some" losses.
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2/ Since 1931, after the advent of double-digit decline years and intra-year periods produced by the S&P 500 ( most recent 2022 ), forward 5 & 20 year stock returns, especially "value" stocks, were substantial Tables 1 & 3 tinyurl.com/4x3wn7sd .
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1/ So far, 2025 market action is typical of a "3rd" year after the occurrence of a "double-digit decline year".
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5/ Whereas income produced via a sale of shares (and qualified dividends) process can exploit a 0% tax rate applied to an allotment of $ above the standard deduction - this being $94K for married couples. ( taxation must be considered with "high yielding" vehicles )
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