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). […]
Notification Test
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 […]
Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 21 July 2022
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 […]
McClintock Portfolio Review: 10 June 2022
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 […]
How To Handle This Selloff: 18 May 2022
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points as I write this, how should investors handle this selloff? Let’s take a simple example. These suggestions assume cash is available. Eventually the market will come back. As long as the inflation is this high and approaching 10%, the market is not going to […]
Learning More About Options
This post is a follow-up to comments/requests made in response to my recent post on “Protecting Portfolio Performance” (https://itawealth.com/protecting-portfolio-performance/). Understanding Options can be a difficult subject – but understanding Options is nowhere near as difficult as learning how to make money trading Options – and this is difficult to teach. After discussions with Lowell, I […]
Activities This Week
This week looks to be a quiet one as only the Kepler and Franklin are scheduled for review. If the market continues its volatile ways, and I expect it will, I’ll update a few other portfolios to make sure they are set properly for what is likely to be a rocky spring and summer. One […]
Investment Policy Statement: February 2022
The following investment policy statement was developed by a retired teacher, with help from a financial advisor. INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENT: Charles Ellis: Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing “[An investment] policy is the most powerful antidote to panic. The best shield for long-term policies against the outrageous attacks of acute short-term data […]
Response to Comments made by ITA member (John Shelton)
In reaction to my recent Rutherford Review post (https://itawealth.com/rutherford-portfolio-review-tranche-5-21-january-2022/ ) John Shelton commented and asked the following questions: “Thx for the very gloomy report. From a psychological perspective, what influence do these trend parameters have on the BHS buy and sell plans? Those of us who study such things know that the Recency Bias would […]
The True Cost of Management Fees
Sometime in the past I wrote about the true cost of management fees, but that blog post may have been deleted in the process of culling older posts. Regardless, it is time to go through the mathematics of management fees. Let’s walk through an example. Here are the critical assumptions to consider. I will neglect […]
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