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Franklin Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 29 April 2024

April 29, 2024 By Lowell Herr

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 […]

Filed Under: Franklin Portfolio, Critical Material, ITA Portfolios, Portfolio Management, Sector BPI Tagged With: Franklin Portfolio, Sector BPI

Bullish Percent Indicators: 21 June 2024

June 22, 2024 By Lowell Herr

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 […]

Filed Under: Bullish Percent Indicators, Critical Material, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Bullish Percent Indicators, Sector BPI

Returning To Investing Roots: 5 August 2024

August 4, 2024 By Lowell Herr

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, […]

Filed Under: Portfolio Management, Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Critical Material, Portfolio Management

Copernicus Portfolio Review: 19 December 2024

December 19, 2024 By Lowell Herr

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 […]

Filed Under: Copernicus Portfolio, Critical Material, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Copernicus Portfolio, Passive Investing.

Bullish Percent Indicators: 4 April 2025

April 5, 2025 By Lowell Herr 5 Comments

“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 […]

Filed Under: Bullish Percent Indicators, Critical Material, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Bullish Percent Indicators

What Should I Do If I Sell My House or Come Into An Inheritance?

April 11, 2025 By Lowell Herr 3 Comments

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. […]

Filed Under: Critical Material, Miscellaneous, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Buffett Indicator & Shiller PE Ratio

May 2, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: Critical Material, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Critical Material, Risk Management

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio – Restructuring the Management Plan Part 2: Asset Allocation and Risk Management

May 21, 2025 By hedgehunter 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Critical Material, Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Risk Parity, Rutherford Portfolio

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