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Absolute Acceleration

May 22, 2017 By hedgehunter

Members occasionally ask for more information on how the the Absolute Acceleration value used in the Kipling SS’s is calculated. This post should answer this question. The Calculation The intent of the absolute acceleration (AA) calculation is to provide an indication of whether momentum is increasing (accelerating) or decreasing (decelerating – negative acceleration) at the […]

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The Golden Rule of Investing

March 17, 2021 By Lowell Herr

The Golden Rule of Investing is simply, “Save as much as you can as early as you can.”  The operative word is early.  William J. Bernstein lays it out in stark language in his book, “The Investor’s Manifesto“ where he writes, “Each dollar you do not save at 25 will mean two inflation-adjusted dollars that […]

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The Elements of Investing: Part I

March 25, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis have written an amazingly simple and short book titled, The Elements of Investing.  This compact book hits on all cylinders of investing and the first one is the most important – SAVE.  This simply means, follow The Golden Rule of Investing. A Charles Dicken’s character, Wilkins Micawber, came […]

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The Elements of Investing: Part II

March 27, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Chapter two of The Elements of Investing covers index investing.  When it comes to investing, nobody knows more than the market.  William F. Sharpe put is simply in an article many years ago when he wrote – The Arithmetic of Active Management.  I find it humorous that Sharpe did not use the word mathematics in […]

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The Elements of Investing: Part III

March 29, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Chapter three of the Malkiel and Ellis book, The Elements of Investing, contains four parts, all related to diversification.  I’ve written about diversification of the family portfolio over on Seeking Alpha.  If interested in this argument, here is the link. Malkiel and Ellis write about the more standard ways to diversify a portfolio and I’ll […]

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Risk Management: May 2021

May 3, 2021 By Lowell Herr

With the U.S. Equities market either making or bumping up against new highs, it behooves investors to consider risk management.  Here are a few suggestions as to how I am working to protect capital.  To illustrate these suggestions, I begin with a $100,000 portfolio managed using the Kipling spreadsheet and a portfolio similar to many […]

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How Risky is Your Portfolio? – Another Perspective

May 11, 2021 By hedgehunter

Last week, Lowell posted a blog asking the question “How Risky is Your Portfolio?”  and reminded us that portfolio returns are a function of the expected returns from the assets in our “quiver” and the risk associated with these assets as represented by their volatility. I thought I would try to provide another perspective on […]

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Dual Momentum Investing by Gary Antonacci

May 21, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Dual Momentum is a combination of Relative Strength Momentum and Absolute Momentum.  Relative strength momentum compares the trend of one security with respect to another security.  Platinum members are familiar with this concept as we are always comparing the strength (price performance) of one ETF with another ETF.  Absolute momentum or absolute acceleration examines the […]

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