Greg, I'm reall liking your way more and more, not that I ever disliked it. One thing that comes to mind is these investing "professionals" who will claim to know what to put you in. I experienced this when my wife didn't want to have anything to do with her retirement plan and just wanted someone to do it for her and she didn't want to listen to me. She had an Edward Jones guy come over and give us his pitch. He has all these load (high sales charge) mutual funds for her and I had my Money magazine list of low cost above average performing funds. Basically, he was pushing funds that he got a commision on because after all this is what he does for a living. The Money list has some really good funds on it, if you're into them, and it's relatively unbiased and the criteria for them to make the list is fundamentally sound.
These professionals don't really know anything you can't learn by doing what Greg is saying and it really comes down to do whether you think they can predict the future any better than you can yourself?
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