Trading Housing Market

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In the July 20th issue of Fortune, there is an interesting article on Case and Shiller. Mr. Shiller recently launched two products that "let investors make a pure directional bet on home prices."If you expect home prices to rise, buy Up Metro Market (), if you expect it to go down, buy Down Metro Market ().I'm interested in seeing how it performs.
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My Notes from The Bogleheads's Guide to Investing

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I just finished reading TheBogleheads' Guide to Investing. It's an interesting book. Excellent forbeginning investors. It's loaded with lots of practical, common sense, advice.Did I learn anything? I learned a few things fromthis book. Here are my notes. Investing Forum: VanguardDiehards Forum on Morningstar.comAvailable on Morningstar.com -> Discuss -> Vanguard Diehards I plan to sign up. It does cost$5. But from the authors' perspective, it's a good resource for like-mindedinvestors that believe in indexing, saving, spending carefully. I considermyself a Boglehead. Some GoodTips Choose and live a soundfinancial lifestyle. We need to pay off our credit card debt, establish anemergency fund, get our spending under control, and most importantly, learn howto live below our means. Start to save early and investregularly. Indexing via low-cost mutualfunds is a strategy that will, over time, most likely outperform the vastmajority of strategies. Costsmatter. Taxes…
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