There are many ways to improve the performance of this portfolio. The easiest thing to do is when you rebalance. You can capture that as an ordinary loss against your ordinary income versus as a long-term loss, which is going to be at a lower rate. In really terrible years, that tax advantage is much bigger. There are three ETF portfolios that perform slightly better.

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