Historical Drawdowns for Global Equity Portfolios

Although it’s possible for such an equity portfolio to experience a decline that takes decades to recover, it’s improbable. Since we shouldn’t dismiss the improbable to be the same as…

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Make A Living In 15 Minutes Per Day Trading This Easy Profitable Strategy

This is the method of trading you should use if you either don’t have the time to spend hours on the charts looking for trade signals, or you just don’t…

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IWM Rally May Find Brief Resistance Near $244~$245 Before Rocketing Higher

Watching the US Stock Market start a big rally phase after the October 12th base/bottom raised a few questions in my head because the Small-Caps/Mid-Caps were not showing a strong upward…

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Measuring “The Market”

      Most investors are surprised to learn the Dow Jones is made up of only 30 stocks, which is less than 10% of all the publicly traded stocks…

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Indexes Still Undecided

The markets have been on fire for months, but that isn’t necessarily the case beneath the surface. Despite the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq trucking along and making new all-time…

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Steady Momentum 2020 Year in Review

SMPW is based on a $100,000 model portfolio that sells slightly out of the money put options on global equity indexes and ETF’s.  The strategy uses modest accounting leverage, targeting…

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Wall Street Close: S&P 500 and the Dow Jones finished the week with gains, the Nasdaq down in a rowdy week

Two of the three major US stock exchanges ended the week in the front foot. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose 0.1%, to close at 34,798. The

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Enhancing 60/40 With a Short Strangle Overlay

Many alternative portfolios have been devised to beat the 60/40 portfolio on a risk-adjusted basis, but few have succeeded over the long-term. The death of the 60/40 portfolio is often…

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Two tech giants get an upgrade in vulnerable September

Facebook & Alphabet, Weekly September is traditionally one of the most volatile and weakest months for equity markets. It is the final month of the third quarter and historically it…

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How To Review Your Trades Effectively

  You make trades in the moment. Ideally, you’re in a ‘flow’ state and not thinking too much about technical details, and applying your training and reviewing later. Think about…

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