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Dirac Portfolio Review: 8 January 2025

January 10, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

I opened the Dirac Portfolio in March 2024, as an “Income” portfolio, with the intent of populating it with CEFs using a mean reversion strategy based on 12-month Z-scores. However, with the markets being in a strong uptrend through 2024, no funds were

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Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 17 January 2025

January 20, 2025 By hedgehunter 2 Comments

First, a look at the performance of US Equities over the past week shows that the initial weakness seen at the Open on Monday quickly turned around to see US Equities finish the week ~ 3% higher than last week’s close: After dropping out

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Copernicus Portfolio Review: 21 January 2025

January 21, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin Copernicus is one of the easiest portfolios to manage as all one does is invest available cash in U.S. Equities.  Never sell unless there is an absolute emergency. If one were to simplify the Copernicus I would

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Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 24 January 2025

January 25, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

Another bullish week in US Equities with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing the week ~1.7% higher than last week’s Close  despite weakness on Friday: So much for the predictive powers of “Head and Shoulders” patterns – but wait – maybe it’s a “Double

Filed Under: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

Millikan Asset Allocation Portfolio Update: 5 February 2025

February 5, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

The Millikan portfolio is the other Sector BPI portfolio I am switching to a simplified asset allocation investment model.  It will likely take a few more reviews before the portfolio is in balance. The current beta is 0.71.  When in total balance the beta should drop below

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Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 6 February 2025

February 6, 2025 By Lowell Herr 8 Comments

Once more it is time to update the highly touted Schrodinger portfolio.  This account is a Schwab “Intelligent Portfolio” managed by computer.  I think of this style of portfolio as a Robo Advisor portfolio.  As an investor interested in setting up such an account, all one needs

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Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 3 March 2025

March 3, 2025 By Lowell Herr 6 Comments

We lead off March with a review of the Schrodinger portfolio, a computer managed account housed with Schwab.  The Schrodinger is known by Schwab as an “Intelligent Portfolio.”  It falls under the general category as a Robo Advisor portfolio. The Schrodinger was first launched back on

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Rebalancing Asset Allocation Portfolios: 12 March 2025

March 12, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

If you are managing an Asset Allocation (AA) portfolio this blog is for you as I am going through the rebalancing process when managing an AA portfolio.  If you are not completely sure what an AA portfolio looks like follow portfolios such as the Gauss, Millikan, Einstein,

Filed Under: Asset Allocation, Millikan Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Asset Allocation

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