With a lot of volatility in the markets and the S&P 500 Index up ~3.6% from last week’s close let’s take a look at an analysis of the sectors that make up the Index:

US Equities took a ~2.2% hit this week so we’ll take a look at how the Dirac Portfolio performed as it focusses on investing in the sectors of this market that are showing the strongest relative strength. The current analysis  sheet looks like this:

The Dirac Portfolio is a US-only Equity Portfolio with no diversification outside of this market/asset class. The objective of the portfolio is to outperform the broader market, as represented by SPY (ETF tracking the S&P 500 Index), by rotating between sectors within this broader market. This week saw a minor adjustment:

It was a ~1.5% pullback in US Equity markets, as measured by the SPY ETF, that is the benchmark for the Dirac Portfolio. The Dirac Portfolio attempts to beat the performance of the benchmark by rotating between the sectors that compose this benchmark. Since my last review I have made two adjustments to holdings in […]

The objective of the Dirac Portfolio is to outperform the S&P 500 stocks, as represented by the SPY ETF, by rotating between sectors that make up the S&P 500 Index. Current analysis of the component sectors looks like this: with Buy or Hold recommendations for all but XLC (Communications), XLF (Financials), XLK (Technology) and XLY […]

The objective of the Dirac portfolio is to try to beat the performance of the broader US Equity markets, as represented by SPY, by rotating holdings between sectors that comprise the benchmark. Currently holdings look like this: with seven of the ten sectors available in the quiver being held in the portfolio.

Last week I started to populate the Dirac Portfolio so as to manage it using my new Momentum/Trend and integrated Mean Reversion model/system. The objective is to see if it might be possible to beat the broader US Equity Market (S&P 500 or similar Index/Fund) by rotating between sectors that comprise this broader market.