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Bohr Portfolio Review: 12 July 2025

When developing a portfolio with retirement as a goal, do your best to never withdrawal funds as growth is interrupted.  That is what happened to both the Bohr and Einstein portfolios.  The owners of each needed funds for education and other emergencies.  When funds are withdrawn the benefits of dollar-cost-averaging is broken, thus stunting portfolio growth. … [Read More...]

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Charles Ellis: Loser’s Game of Stock Picking

Let’s revisit Charles D. Ellis’ 1995 paper, “The Loser’s Game,” where he describes his Break-Even Return (BER) equation. Here is a review of this equation. BER = [(Turnover percentage x Transaction Cost) + Management Fee + Target Return]/Market Return It is quite easy to set up this equation in an Excel spreadsheet and play around with different variables. … [Read More...]

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Huygens Asset Allocation Portfolio Review: 13 September 2024

September 14, 2024 By Lowell Herr 4 Comments

In an earlier post this morning I mentioned Huygens as a serious contender to be included as one of the investing models for the family portfolio.  The Huygens, and several other portfolios I track here at ITA, were recently converted from other … [Read more]

Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 3 and Tranche 4): 6 September and 13 September 2024

September 14, 2024 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

Due to the disruption in access to Yahoo price data, and the fact that I am presently travelling, I was not able to post a review of the Rutherford Portfolio last week so I will attempt to play catch-up this week. After a minor pull-back … [Read more]

Copernicus Portfolio Review: 13 September 2024

September 13, 2024 By Lowell Herr 4 Comments

This update or review of the Copernicus is incomplete as Yahoo closed the door on access to their security price data.  This change impacted the Investment Account Portfolio (IAM) software so I don't have any way to download prices into that … [Read more]

Millikan Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 6 September 2024

September 6, 2024 By Lowell Herr 1 Comment

Before digging into the Millikan Sector BPI review I checked to see if any sectors dropped into the oversold zone.  None made this move so there are no recommendations to purchase any sectors or sector ETFs.  Of the overbought sectors, TSLOs are … [Read more]

Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 2): 30 August 2024

September 2, 2024 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

It was a week of consolidation in the US Equity markets with prices trading in a narrow range in comparison with the volatility of the past 2 months: Prices are hovering at the resistance level of the all-time highs in the SPX (S&P 500 Index) … [Read more]

Pauling Asset Allocation Portfolio: 29 August 2024

August 29, 2024 By Lowell Herr 4 Comments

Pauling is one of numerous Asset Allocation (AA) portfolios.  I moved several portfolios over to this model due to the outstanding performance of the Schrodinger, a computer managed AA portfolio.  I am also returning to the root of my investing … [Read more]

Carson Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 29 August 2024

August 28, 2024 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

The oldest Sector BPI portfolio is up for review this morning.  Carson is the best test of this unique investing model and there were changes this week as Technology (VGT) hit the 3% limit and was sold out of the portfolio.  It was only a short time … [Read more]

Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 26 August 2024

August 26, 2024 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Schrodinger is the lone Robo Advisor portfolio or what Schwab calls, an Intelligent Portfolio.  In this review I will go over the current holdings, performance data, and risks involved.  ITA readers know that I advocate both security diversification … [Read more]

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