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Protecting Portfolio Performance

April 16, 2022 By hedgehunter

We are all conscious of the fact that US Equity markets have been in a strong bullish trend since the financial crisis of 2008. With the exception of the 2020 Covid-19 correction – a ~20% pullback in prices from which we recovered very quickly – we have not seen a draw-down of greater than 18% […]

Filed Under: Options, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Options, Portfolio Management

Learning More About Options

April 18, 2022 By hedgehunter

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 […]

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How To Handle This Selloff: 18 May 2022

May 18, 2022 By Lowell Herr

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 […]

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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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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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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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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 […]

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Beginning Investors, Critical Material

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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