Warning: This post is likely of no direct interest to most readers of this Blog – it is written for education and interest only, and outlines one of the potential advantages of using Options for portfolio insurance. These are nervous times and we should be concerned about
Dirac Portfolio Review: 4 August 2025
Since my last review on 18 July I have made a few adjustments to the Dirac Portfolio especially as a result of last Friday’s weakness in the US equity markets – since this portfolio is totally focused on these markets:
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 7 March 2025
It was a volatile week in the US Equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing down ~3% on the week once the dust had settled on Friday: Markets are looking a little weak here as we
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 28 February 2025
It was another volatile week in the US Equity markets with the bears beating the bulls by ~1%: with Friday’s bounce off the ~5840-5880 zone that is providing strong support we are back into the sideways consolidation channel that we have been in for the
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 21 February 2025
After hitting new all-time highs on Wednesday, US Equities collapsed on Friday with prices now sitting on the lower boundary of the longer-term uptrend channel: Thus, we remain in the choppy sideways consolidation range that we have been in for the past
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 14 February 2025
It was another week of choppy sideways movement in US equities although the SPX did close higher by ~1.5% and close to the all-time highs that have been providing strong resistance over the past 3 months: However, we remain well within the bullish uptrend channel so
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 7 February 2025
Another rather volatile week in US equity markets with no clear indication of a short-term trend: ….. although we remain in the longer term uptrend channel that started last May. We have now been churning sideways for the past 3 months. US equities
Learning More About Options
This post is a follow-up to comments/requests made in response to my recent post on “Protecting Portfolio Performance” (https://itawealth.com/protecting-portfolio-performance/). Understanding Options can be a difficult subject – but understanding Options is nowhere near as difficult as learning how to make money trading Options – and this








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