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Einstein Portfolio Update: 14 July 2026

What to do with a poor performing portfolio?  Advice to the owner of the Einstein is to continue to add money to the portfolio and work toward keeping the various asset class close to target.  Instead of concentrating on the Internal Rate of Return, focus on the Jensen Alpha and Information Ratio. Einstein Security Holdings The asset allocation model is set up to resist a market draw-down.  It … [Read More...]

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The Elements of Investing: Part III

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 go into this below. … [Read More...]

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Darwin 2026 Portfolio Review: 5 June 2026

June 6, 2026 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

After hitting more all-time highs at the beginning of the week the SPX (S&P 500 Index) bounced off the ~7600 resistance level and closed the week ~2.5% lower than last week's close: … [Read more]

Portfolio Diversification: 6 June 2026

June 6, 2026 By Lowell Herr 4 Comments

What to make of Friday's sell off?  Hi Tech took a hit last Friday, but the broad market is still bullish based on the Bullish Percent Indicator (BPI) for the NYSE. These mixed signals are confusing at best.  This next week, as well as the behavior … [Read more]

McClintock Sector BPI Portfolio Update: 5 June 2026

June 5, 2026 By Lowell Herr 1 Comment

Since McClintock is a Sector BPI portfolio, I updated the BPI spreadsheet and found that Health is overbought.  I placed a 3% TSLO under VHT.  What I've been doing is selling all but one (1) share.  Without going into great detail, holding on to a … [Read more]

Bethe Portfolio Review: 4 June 2026

June 5, 2026 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

  "Create a diversified portfolio for a retiree using 12 to 15 low cost ETFs with the goal to withstand a market correction or a recession."  This is the request I made to ChatGPT.  Following is the answer to the … [Read more]

Huygens Portfolio Review: 3 June 2026

June 3, 2026 By Lowell Herr 1 Comment

Huygens is the portfolio up for review this morning.  Before getting into the portfolio update here are three important measurements to use as references or indicators as to future market movement.  We know the Shiller CAPE and Buffett Indicator are … [Read more]

Millikan Portfolio Review: 2 June 2026

June 2, 2026 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

The Millikan portfolio is the second of five portfolios to be reviewed and updated this week.  Once more the broad equities market is up slightly as I write this blog.  As readers will see in the first screenshot, I am patiently waiting for better … [Read more]

Gauss Portfolio Review: 1 June 2026

June 1, 2026 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

I gave ChatGPT the following instruction.  Below this sentence is the response from this AI source.  If you have access to a different AI program, give it the identical instruction and compare the results.  When I tried it with Microsoft the feedback … [Read more]

Dirac 2026 Portfolio Review: 29 May 2026

May 31, 2026 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

  The Dirac Portfolio attempts to outperform the broader US Market (SPY) by rotating between sectors within that broader market. Let's first take a look at performance to date: where we can see (admittedly to my surprise) that, year-to-date, … [Read more]

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