Recent market declines kicked several sectors into the oversold zone. The Franklin ETFs impacted are: VCR, VDC, VFH, VHT, VIS, and VOX. When I ran the Bullish Percent Indicator (BPI) numbers before the market opened, Industrial registered 31.64 and Consumer Staples was 30.55.
Archives for 2026
McClintock Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 13 March 2026
McClintock is a Sector BPI portfolio that has been operating under this management style for nearly 29 months. In this review we will check the performance over this period and look at how well it had done since 12/31/2021 or the launch date of the youngest ITA
Portfolio Hedging
Warning: This post is likely of no direct interest to most readers of this Blog – it is written for education and interest only, and outlines one of the potential advantages of using Options for portfolio insurance. These are nervous times and we should be concerned about
Copernicus Portfolio Review: 11 March 2026
Copernicus is the equity portfolio scheduled for review this morning. Based on an over priced U.S. stock market I shifted the emphasis slightly, moving from the S&P 500 (VOO) over to several dividend oriented ETFs. Below you see a significant percentage of the portfolio focusing on VIG, SCHD and VYM.
Gauss Portfolio Review: 5 March 2026
Gauss is the portfolio up for review today. The owner of this portfolio is not contributing significant amounts of cash each month so the re-balancing will need to come from dividends and interest income. Gauss is a very conservative portfolio as one can see from the low beta value of 0.27. Conservative is defined in […]
Pauling Portfolio Review: 3 March 2026
Pauling is an asset allocation portfolio that is slowly working out of a performance deficit. Over the past few months I have been reworking the asset allocation mix and that work is not quite complete as readers will see in one of the following screenshots. Several asset classes are out
Carson Portfolio Review: 26 February 2026
Rachel Carson is the portfolio up for review this morning. As the oldest Sector BPI portfolio I look to this one to see if the sector hypothesis is working out according to plan. Thus far the data is quite positive as readers and followers of the Sector BPI
Schrodinger Portfolio Update: 24 February 2026
We begin the last week of February with an update of the Schrodinger, the single Robo Advisor portfolio tracked here on the ITA blog. The Schrodinger has been operating for approximately 8.5 years. I use a start date of 12/31/2021 in order to compare the performance with much
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