Franklin (named for Rosalind – British chemist) is a small Sector BPI portfolio or one of eleven ITA portfolio using this particular investing model. Not all eleven are reported on this blog as some owners prefer the data not be public. Several of the screenshots come out of the Kipling spreadsheet. The first, second, and […]
Bullish Percent Indicators: 21 June 2024
What happened to U.S. Equities this past week? Lifetime and Platinum members will see that little action took place other than a slight decay in performance for small- and mid-cap stocks. The first table lays out the broad picture while the second table separates the market into sectors and it is this information we use […]
Returning To Investing Roots: 5 August 2024
This ITA Wealth Management blog has been chugging along for approximately 16.5 years. Over the last few months I’ve moved several portfolios back to what I call my investing roots or what is known as the Asset Allocation model. While I loosely used this model for years going back into the 1960s through the 1990s, […]
Copernicus Portfolio Review: 19 December 2024
Keep it simple is the philosophy of the Copernicus portfolio. Invest only in U.S. Equities such as VOO and VTI and never sell unless there is an emergency. Keep cash levels low and expenses to a minimum. One reason for including ESGV as part of the portfolio is to purchase shares if the remaining cash […]
Bullish Percent Indicators: 4 April 2025
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Menckken In all the years I’ve been tracking the Bullish Percent Indicators (BPI), as shown below, I never witnessed such a precipitous drop in prices as we experienced the last two trading […]
What Should I Do If I Sell My House or Come Into An Inheritance?
The answer to the above question of what to do with a sizable infusion of new cash has multiple answers. This blog lays out one path for individuals fortunate enough to be faced with this question. The following plan assumes one does not need this money for living expenses, but is available for future investing. […]
Buffett Indicator & Shiller PE Ratio
Canyonland National Park Over the last few weeks I’ve been setting Trailing Stop Loss Orders (TSLOs) for VTI, VOO, and SCHG when portfolios holding these securities come up for review. The tariff wars are causing market uncertainty, but tariffs are not the only reason for setting TSLOs. Erratic administration behavior only exacerbates an overbought market. […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio – Restructuring the Management Plan Part 2: Asset Allocation and Risk Management
In part 1 of this series of posts on how I intend to construct and manage the Rutherford-Darwin portfolio going forward, I identified the nine ETFs that I would be using to populate the portfolio. I also indicated that, rather than holding all nine ETFs in a “Buy-and-Hold” portfolio that I would be selecting only […]
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