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QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 10:49 AM) Thanks! Not a retirement account, just trying to move more of our money out of cash now that we have our house. "For my two cents, if you have a regular old investment account, and are looking to mimic the stock market return, I wouldn't invest in the funds, and instead would invest in the underlying major ETF." This is what I was trying to accomplish. I'll look into this today. First things first, I noticed I said QQQ and SP 500, the Q's are actually the Nasdaq. Don't ask me how I did that, but... The big caveat here is will it hurt you to lose this money. If the answer is yes, you shouldn't be in stocks/stock funds. Assuming your are OK with the risk, I love the stock indexes for rate of returns. Long term, they will always out perform traded funds. The big ETF's to check into are the following: SPY = SP 500 QQQ = Nasdaq DIA = Dow Jones Industrial Average

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 10:19 AM) If they trade both Sale and Quintana, then there is no reason to keep guys like Abreu, Eaton, etc either. In other words, if Sale and Q are both traded, then the Sox would have to blow everything up and start from scratch. I'd keep Rodon, Fulmer, and Anderson if they got to that point, but everyone else would be available. If they trade both Sale and Quintana they might as well move the entire organization with them.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 09:48 AM) Hey question for thread. I do not know if I'm asking the write question as I'm searching for the answer, maybe people don't do this. I've been hoping to set up sending a portion of my paycheck monthly into an investment account to just go to an index fund. I currently have a schwab account, doesn't need to be used for this. But do you know if there are typically minimums required on index fund purchases, and if so, what is that listed price called and where is it reported? There is a huge number of products out there that mirror the indexes, depending on what kind of account you are doing, and which specifically you are looking to get into, you have a ton of options. For example, each mutual fund firm offers an SP 500 fund of some sort. There are also many different ETFs which mirror the indexes as well, in the case of the SP500, the biggest and best is the QQQ. The Dow Jones 30 Industrials ETF is the DIA. The ETF's trade like a stock on the open exchanges. For my two cents, if you have a regular old investment account, and are looking to mimic the stock market return, I wouldn't invest in the funds, and instead would invest in the underlying major ETF. The big thing this allows you is the ability to be able to trade into, or out of the stock during any point in the trading day, as opposed to mutual funds who will take your order, but will only execute your trade after the close of trading at a set price. If I am misunderstanding you and this is more of a retirement/IRA account, those things don't matter as much an the typical SP500 fund is probably better as they will allow you to use all of your cash on hand in a purchase and will award you partial shares, versus a stock trade which will only allow you to buy full shares, and the rest of your cash will sit in the account.

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QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 09:15 AM) wow...... i really don't know about that. granted sucking for a long time, really made everyone in the org wanting to make changes. however it all happen when the owner passed. i hate to say or bring that up, am i being insensitive to his memory and to the family. that is what i am trying not to do. but lets be honest, it started for the best with rocky took over, got rid of the good ole boy network. no more the idea of having a GM whose only job was to go out with the owner for a liquid lunch stay for a liquid dinner. It started for the best when the drafted Kane and Toews back to back years.

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QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 09:04 AM) good post but you missed an important part. without this, the sox will look for another player at #3. they had a change in the ideas of making it work and the salary cap. dealing with his adviser who later became his agent. 3yrs ago, that would not have happen. Let's be honest. The Blackhawks are where they are today because they completely sucked for a very long time.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 08:13 AM) I bird pooped on my hate during a river cruise in San Antonio. Therefore, the entire city should be razed to the ground. Didn't Tex move up around this area recently? That's what you get for being a hater.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 09:02 AM) Also have to keep in mind the loss of dollar cost averaging that occurs over time in 401k investing...I've been buying through my 401k from 2005 until now, which means I bought through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, not to mention the dividends made along the way. Which is why these retirement accounts MUST be viewed as VERY VERY long term investments. You buy throughout decades, not days. And buying when things are cheap is a pretty successful long term trading strategy.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 08:41 AM) The Hawks have 3 of the 12 or so best players in the NHL. That has more to do with their success than anything Rocky Wirtz or John McDonough has done. It comes down to talent. It always does. The White Sox don't currently have the young hitters that other teams have. They have tremendous young pitching though with more on the way. And two of those guys were the first and third picks overall. The one time the White Sox got the third pick, they got a guy who has superstar potential and is already on this team.

Throw a 16 year old Greg Oden into that mix as well. Zach Randolph also looked about 22 when I met him at 16 years old as a Soph in HS.

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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 05:54 PM) Not at all, they should blow their funds on Martinez.....but probably won't. It's that simple. The opposite would be to outbid a highly sought after talent and go over our budget which (as the linked I posted above suggests) they don't do. The fact they are working him out means that they at least have a level of interest, and signing him would put them over.

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QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 04:15 PM) The Sox got some nice breaks to get both in the draft. I am thrilled to have both.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 04:02 PM) Omar: I agree with you... the problem is going back to the 50's the Sox are always "close" but never get it done. Something always jumps up and bites them in the ass. Again I can only restate history, they are the only one of the original 16 pre expansion franchises to have never made the playoffs in consecutive seasons. We're talking 115 years. Even the clownish Cubs have been able to pull that one off. What does that say about the Sox? Or do you (not necessarily you personally) start believing in "curses..." LOL. Like Jack McDowell told me once the Sox haven't won more often because they've had "bad players, bad managers and bad general managers." Hard to argue with his remarks. And it also says something when the brain-dead Marlins have won more World Series in their history than the Sox got to the World Series between 1919 and 2005. Mark The Marlins also have had 8 people manage their team since 2010 and 0 playoff appearances to show for it. They are about the polar opposite of the "loyalty" meme.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) I am one of Fulmer's biggest cheerleaders based on conversations in some of the other threads and I voted Carlos without any hesitation. This conversation has been had in other places. Rodon's ceiling is a workhorse version of Chris Sale. Fulmer's is probably more like Jose Quintana. While I think Fulmer has a chance to be very good, Rodon has a chance to be a star.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) That's part of the story, but there is more to it than that. If you are going to blow through your limit, you need to make sure you have a BIG slate of talent who will sign if you do. What you absolutely don't want to do, is blow through on one guy, and miss out on the rest. That's the worst case scenario. So you not only need to make that decision, you need to have a bunch of deals reliably lined up before you make the leap. The bluster was that Martinez would have been the #1 overall pick if he had been in this years MLB draft. If you can get him, you do it. You can then think about adding from the rest of the pool of talent in Cuba.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) Not relevant because everyone knew Bryant would be up in 20 days and Olt was simply a temporary fill in. Last I looked the Sox don't have a Kris Bryant ready to step in someplace. Mark They had one step into the starting rotation, his name was Carlos Rodon.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 12:47 PM) Well, anyone who oversaw massive failure! I'm not asking your opinion on that article. I'm asking your opinion on Fiorina and what contribution she had to HP's decline. edit: as far as general consensus at the time on the merger, here's an old Bloomberg article on the internal revolt. Hewlett and others objected specifically because it was a merger that would expose them to the declining PC market. It isn't just hindsight to say it was a terrible move. My position is that the economy of the post-tech bubble and decline in the PC as the prominent technology had way more to do with HPs problems than the CEO did. Historically it would be like blaming the airline CEO for going bankrupt after 911 and gas price explosion. It isn't to say she had no role, but this worst CEO ever stuff is so incredibly overblown to the point of ridiculousness, especially when a good chunk of this stupidity is coming from someone whose companies have filed for bankruptcy numerous times themselves.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 12:27 PM) What is a player supposed to say? Quotes to the media mean absolutely nothing to me? Is he supposed to say he wants to be on a winning team only? Then the media and fans would turn to him during times like this and say he doesn't want to be a good teammate. There's no winning saying anything other than what he has said. I could really care less what Sale wants. Not be armchair GM here, but I just think you trade from your excess to make up for your areas you are weak in. If it's Sale? Okay. If its Rodon, Okay. If its Quintana, okay. But you better fix more than one position with this trade. Trading and fixing just catcher when giving up your most prized possession doesnt work for me. Jeff Samardjiza made it very clear he wasn't interested in signing.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) Why do 2005 and 2008 have to be outliers? They still won 90 games in 2006, and that was with every starting pitcher performing significantly worse than the year before. Hell if Buehrle just has his usual season we would have made the playoffs that year. 2003 and 2004 they weren't too far off either (83 wins with your two best hitters out the whole year isn't too shabby, who knows what would have happened if Frank and Maggs were healthy). We were also a couple small things going our way from making the playoffs in 2010 and 2012. It's not like we're the Marlins who lose 90+ games every season except for the two completely random seasons when everything came together. The last few seasons have been rough but from 2000-2012 the White Sox were usually in playoff contention. Things certainly haven't been great, but it hasn't been quite as bad as you're making it seem. Under this playoff system, the Sox are the second wild card team in the playoffs in 2006.