Yesterday the U.S. Equities market took quite a hit. This morning stocks are down again. What is going on to drive down the S&P 500, a good benchmark for monitoring the overall market? Check out this YouTube video. If the video does not start at the beginning,
Gauss Portfolio Review: 5 March 2026
Gauss is the portfolio up for review today. The owner of this portfolio is not contributing significant amounts of cash each month so the re-balancing will need to come from dividends and interest income. Gauss is a very conservative portfolio as one can see from the low beta value of 0.27. Conservative is defined in […]
Gauss Revised Asset Allocation Portfolio Review: 5 September 2025
Instead of a complete review of the Gauss portfolio, I am laying out a new and expanded asset allocation model for this account. This new asset allocation plan is global compared to the mini-asset allocation model currently in place. Check the Gauss portfolio at the bottom of this
Gauss Portfolio Review: 28 May 2025
Gauss is another portfolio using a truncated asset allocation model or one where very few ETFs are used to populate the portfolio. In other words – Keep it simple. In keeping with caution in this uncertain economic environment, I placed a 4.5% Trailing Stop Loss Order (TSLO)
Gauss Portfolio Review: 18 March 2025
Gauss is another simplified asset allocation portfolio. The goal is to concentrate on three asset classes with a fourth (SHV) used to house cash. The portfolio is very cost effective as the expense ratios are very low. A broad market ETF where VOO fits
Gauss Asset Allocation Portfolio Review: 19 February 2025
Gauss is one of the portfolios converted from the Sector BPI investing model over to a simplified Asset Allocation investing model. This will reduce workload as well as shift investments toward a more conservative asset allocation. As with the Millikan portfolio, update posted yesterday, the Gauss is
Gauss Asset Allocation Portfolio Review: 5 February 2025
Gauss is not scheduled for a review until later this month, but since I am shifting this account from a Sector BPI investing model over to a simplified Asset Allocation investing model, I need to get started on the rebalancing process. The following analysis will walk readers
Gauss Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 25 October 2024
Gauss is one of five portfolios currently using the Sector BPI investing model. The other four are: Carson, Franklin, McClintock, and Millikan. To see how these portfolios are performing, check out this blog post. These five portfolios were launched at