Gauss is one of the more recent portfolios to be moved from the Relative Momentum model (expanded version of the Dual Momentum model) over to the Sector BPI Plus model.  This conversion occurred a little less than one year ago.  I just checked to see how well this Investment Quiver performed vs SPY.  Over the […]

Gauss is one of six Sector BPI Plus portfolios managed here at ITA.  Recent additions to this investing model are:  Bohr and Bethe.  Since the beginning of this year the Gauss reversed the Jensen trend from negative to positive and it continues to outperform the S&P 500 (SPY) benchmark.  This week I sold off shares […]

Gauss is the portfolio up for review this morning.  We are approximately eight (8) months into the Sector BPI investing model with the Gauss and thus far the sector approach is working as laid out in the hypothesis last winter.  We still need a business cycle or two before we can draw any significant conclusions.  […]

Updating the Bullish Percent Indicator (BPI) spreadsheet this morning no changes were observed.  There certainly are no Buy recommendations and all the overbought sectors have Trailing Stop Loss Orders (TSLOs) already in place.  Gauss has cash available and I set a number of limit orders as readers will see as this review proceeds. Gauss is […]

Gauss is the Sector BPI Plus portfolio up for review this morning.  A month or so ago I added a “tweak” to the original Sector BPI model in an effort to patch up what was a likely problem when a sector was sold and then returned to the overbought zone.  The patch added several equity […]

Gauss is another Sector BPI Plus portfolio (one of four) so the analysis of this account follows the same logic laid out in the Carson blog posted yesterday.  As you will recall, two sectors are overbought and they are:  Technology and Industrial.  I don’t recall holding any shares in Technology (VGT) since launching this sector […]