After a rough start on Monday, U.S. Equities bounced strongly for the rest of the week to again close at all-time highs: The weekly range was also a little unusual in that it was greater than the Expected Move as calculated from the Implied Volatility of Option prices. The weekly returns of ETFs in the […]
Dirac Portfolio Review – 28 May 2021
I am presently in the process of moving funds around a bit – and I also have to make mandatory withdrawals from some of my retirement accounts – so this is one portfolio that gets affected. Although the Dirac portfolio was last year’s best performing portfolio (on a percent gain basis) it has disappointed a […]
Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 5) – 21 May 2021
After a brief scare on Wednesday, U.S. equity markets recovered to close down only ~0.4% from last weeks close and continue to trade just below the $4200 resistance area in the S&P Index: Implied Volatility remains slightly elevated but nothing too extreme. As we can see from the performance graph: the Rutherford portfolio followed the […]
Gauss Portfolio Review: 13 April 2021
Gauss is the portfolio up for review this morning. I think of this portfolio as one of the Relative Strength or Tranche Momentum portfolios. The other two main models followed here at ITA are: Dual Momentum and Asset Allocation. These models do not include those managed by Hedgehunter. If looking for a portfolio of stocks, […]
Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 5) – 12 March 2021
It was a bullish week in the US Equity markets with the S&P 500 closing the week ~2.6% higher than last week’s close and at all-time highs: The closes on the last 2 days were also outside the Expected Move (EM) for the week and volatility has dropped. We will now wait to see whether […]
Walking Through a Kepler Review for New Subscribers: 2 March 2021
This blog post is primarily for new ITA readers who not familiar with the Kipling spreadsheet. With few exceptions, I’ll stick to the “default” settings in this analysis. Kepler Main Menu Beginning with the Main Menu, the “default” settings are to use the 60- and 100-trading days look-back combination. I’m running a look-back test with […]
Dirac Portfolio Review: 26 February 2021
The Dirac portfolio is the only portfolio reviewed on this site that is built from individual stocks, rather than from Funds of stock, and the recent high volatility and pullback in US equity prices has taken it’s toll on the portfolio as numerous Trailing Stop Loss Orders (TSLOs) were hit over the last few weeks. […]
Dirac Portfolio Review – 31 August 2020
I’m reviewing the Dirac Portfolio mid-day today so as to avoid severe overload of information as End-Of-Month (EOM) reviews become due. We’ll start with a quick look at the Dirac Portfolio quiver that is comprised of 40 stocks (rather than ETFs) that are considered for inclusion in the portfolio: At the present time the portfolio […]