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Just Received My First Paycheck

October 1, 2022 By Lowell Herr

I’m 25 years old and I just received my first paycheck.  What advice would you give this young person who is interested in preparing for retirement, even though it is 40 years in the future? Here are some basic words of advice. Open up a Roth IRA with a firm such as Schwab.  There is […]

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What Is Working?

September 27, 2022 By Lowell Herr

After a stellar year in 2021 followed by a bear market in 2022, it makes good sense to run an analysis on what is working when it comes to the ITA portfolios.   Which of the eighteen (18) ITA portfolios rank high on a return basis and which rank high on a risk adjusted basis […]

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The Argument for Self-Management

September 9, 2022 By Lowell Herr

ITA Wealth Management is an educational blog designed to help investors of all levels learn how to manage their own portfolios.  Numerous models are explained and updated each month.  These models vary from the very simple to a few that are more complex.  Complex is defined as requiring more judgment and decisions vs. Buy and […]

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Photographic Software Hints

August 29, 2022 By Lowell Herr

ITA readers who have an interest in digital photography are living in a period where tools of the trade are abundant and powerful.  Here are a few suggestions. I’ve been a Lightroom user from Version 1 on and it will be difficult to move away from Adobe, but that is where I am going after […]

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Using Rotation Data in an Investment Strategy Model

August 27, 2022 By hedgehunter

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have been trying to define a model that might use data generated from calculations of momentum/relative strength that generates “rotational” graphs that look like this: Where we see a general clockwise rotation of momentum over time (the length of the tail). If we accept that […]

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Bohr Portfolio Review: 24 August 2022

August 24, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Bohr is one of the growth-income portfolios that is essentially a passive portfolio.  Passive in the sense that dividends are reinvested in additional shares either on the growth or income side of the portfolio.  While the Kipling spreadsheet is used to keep track of the asset allocations, it is not used in the same way […]

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McClintock Portfolio Review: 16 August 2022

August 16, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Yesterday I updated the Franklin, a poor performing Dual Momentum™ portfolio.  This morning the McCormick is up for review and the performance is quite different.  Chalk the difference up to the luck-of-review-day rather than the particular investing model. McClintock Dual Momentum Recommendation The current recommendation is to place 100% of the portfolio in bonds (BND).  […]

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Notification Test

July 25, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Notification test. This is a simple test to see if MailPoet, a new notification plugin is working.  Leave a comment if you received this notification.  You may first need to subscribe for notifications.  I think this plugin is setup so you can cancel at anything so you do not receive any notifications.   Once I […]

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Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 21 July 2022

July 21, 2022 By Lowell Herr

The often touted Schrodinger is again up for review.  I started this portfolio a few years ago as a test to see how a computer managed portfolio might perform compared to other investing models.  As a result, one can use the Schrodinger or a similar Robo Advisor portfolio as a management benchmark.  How are the […]

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McClintock Portfolio Review: 10 June 2022

June 10, 2022 By Lowell Herr

McClintock is one of four Dual Momentum™ portfolios tracked here at ITA Wealth Management.  Is this investing model doing an adequate job for the owner of this portfolio?  Follow along as I walk through the review or updating process.  If there are new readers who are not familiar with the Dual Momentum model, it is […]

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