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I'm not sure where everyone got the idea that I was advocating for high-risk active trading. I proposed using these services for "things like [Betterment]" and posted a link to a M…

I never proposed anything wildly different to what Wealthfront and Betterment do, the one example algorithm I gave is essentially buy and hold with rebalancing just like Betterment…

Totally agree. I was aiming more for those who just want to rebalance their portfolios every month or something like that, though I acknowledge that the services I linked to do hav…

Since this is a community of programmers, you might be interested in doings things like this yourself instead. There are a couple of options: - Quantopian ( http://quantopian.com/ …

Betterment maintains a more diversified portfolio and optimizes it for a few things like downside risk, explained here: https://www.betterment.com/resources/investment-strategy/por…

> If you moved your money to Vanguard and invested in the same funds Betterment currently invests in for you, and you rebalanced as often as necessary, you would get a slightly hig…