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Millikan Portfolio Review: 1 May 2025

May 1, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Headline news this morning – “Trump’s tariffs have left businesses in a ‘state of near paralysis’.” Advanced planning is nearly impossible do to an erratic administration that is in the hands of one person.  A person who was not even able to make casinos a success. Based on a rough economic market ahead I have […]

Filed Under: Millikan Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Millikan Portfolio

Buffett Indicator & Shiller PE Ratio

May 2, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Canyonland National Park Over the last few weeks I’ve been setting Trailing Stop Loss Orders (TSLOs) for VTI, VOO, and SCHG when portfolios holding these securities come up for review.  The tariff wars are causing market uncertainty, but tariffs are not the only reason for setting TSLOs.  Erratic administration behavior only exacerbates an overbought market. […]

Filed Under: Critical Material, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Critical Material, Risk Management

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio – Restructuring the Management Plan Part 2: Asset Allocation and Risk Management

May 21, 2025 By hedgehunter 3 Comments

In part 1 of this series of posts on how I intend to construct and manage the Rutherford-Darwin portfolio going forward, I identified the nine ETFs that I would be using to populate the portfolio. I also indicated that, rather than holding all nine ETFs in a “Buy-and-Hold” portfolio that I would be selecting only […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Critical Material, Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Risk Parity, Rutherford Portfolio

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 30 May 2025

June 2, 2025 By hedgehunter 3 Comments

This week I will go through the first full review of the Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio since the introduction of my new Management Plan ~ two weeks ago. This period has been devoted to setting up the portfolio to the point where I can review all the strategies to be employed in the construction and management of […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 6 June, 2025

June 8, 2025 By hedgehunter 1 Comment

It was a predictable week in US equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) testing the psychologically important 6000 “round number” level:

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 13 June, 2025

June 18, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

US equities attempted to test the all-time high at ~6100 but volume was not strong and there was not enough conviction to break through this important resistance level with trend and momentum indicators (MACD and RSI) sending mixed signals:

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 20 June, 2025

June 22, 2025 By hedgehunter 2 Comments

It was a relatively quiet, short, trading week in the US equity markets with more consolidation below the ~6100 resistance level and the SPX closing down ~0.2% from last week’s Close:

Filed Under: Darwin Portfolio, Miscellaneous, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 27 June, 2025

June 29, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

US Equities pushed higher this week, despite geopolitical uncertainties, and closed the week ~ 3.5% higher than last week’s close after testing the important 6100 level in the SPX (S&P 500 Index) and breaking out to new all-time highs:

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

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