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Gauss Portfolio Update: 22 December 2025

Gauss is the portfolio up for review this morning and it is undergoing a few asset allocation adjustments.  Gauss is one of the better performing portfolios, due in part to no withdrawals since inception a number of years ago.  In addition to no withdrawals new … [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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Checking Up On McClintock: 5 October 2022

October 5, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Updating the McClintock generated a surprise as I expected the Dual Momentum™ model would follow the recommendation we observed for both the Franklin and Pauling portfolios which was to invest 100% of the portfolio in U.S. Equities.  Not so with the … [Read more]

Just Received My First Paycheck

October 1, 2022 By Lowell Herr

I'm 25 years old and I just received my first paycheck.  What advice would you give this young person who is interested in preparing for retirement, even though it is 40 years in the future? Here are some basic words of advice. Open up a Roth … [Read more]

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 … [Read more]

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 … [Read more]

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 … [Read more]

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 … [Read more]

Bohr Portfolio Review: 24 August 2022

August 24, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Bohr is one of the growth-income portfolios that is essentially a passive portfolio.  Passive in the sense that dividends are reinvested in additional shares either on the growth or income side of the portfolio.  While the Kipling spreadsheet is used … [Read more]

McClintock Portfolio Review: 16 August 2022

August 16, 2022 By Lowell Herr

Yesterday I updated the Franklin, a poor performing Dual Momentum™ portfolio.  This morning the McCormick is up for review and the performance is quite different.  Chalk the difference up to the luck-of-review-day rather than the particular investing … [Read more]

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