If We’re Wrong: Keeping DUG From Putting You In A Hole
In a recent post (“Crude Strategy“), I mentioned a hedged bet on the ProShares UltraShort Oil ETF (DUG): In Case We’re Wrong About DUG One…
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Crude Strategy
Going On Offense In my last post (“Too Late To Hedge“), I wrote that it was too late to hedge market risk, but not too…
Too Late To Hedge
Time to hedge? You should have started much earlier, but here are a few things you can still do. Q4 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences…
Surviving COVID-19
My Twitter correspondent Claire Lehmann shares a strategy for beating the COVID-19 coronavirus: essentially social distancing to flatten the curve as shown above. You’ve probably seen a…
Downside Protection For GLD
Last month, the SPDR Gold Trust ETF GLD dropped 2.4% in one day following the biggest dollar loss for gold in three years, on news…
Building A Hedged Portfolio Around Danaher
DHR And The Hedged Portfolio Method With shares of Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) up significantly this year, it’s a good candidate for an aggressive hedged portfolio….
Moore Good News For Gold Longs
Gold bulls, including those long the yellow metal via the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD), got a bit of good news last month, as President Trump…
Buying An Umbrella When It’s Sunny Out
Hedging when the market is up is like buying an umbrella when it’s sunny out: you’ll be protected when it rains Buying An Umbrella Before…
Keeps Getting Worse For Facebook: Now Anti-Semitic?
NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Have any 2 individuals made more money while doing more damage to the United…
A 10% Solution To Risk Management
The 10% Solution Last time, I asked you to think back to last October. Let’s try that risk management exercise again, with slightly different parameters….
The 6% Solution
The 6% Solution Think back to last October. Imagine you or someone you know had $100,000 to put to work, but was extremely risk…
Beating The Market 16 Out Of 18 Times
In a previous Value Walk post (“A Security Selection Method That Beats The Market”), I mentioned that, since June 8th, I’ve been posting Portfolio Armor‘s top…
A Security Selection Method That Beats The Market
The 6-month performance of Portfolio Armor’s top names from July 27th. Generating Alpha Via Security Selection Since June 8th, I’ve been posting Portfolio Armor‘s top…
Apple Inc. Targeted For Mobile Phone Addiction: Facebook Inc Next?
Apple In The Crosshairs — Facebook Next? The big tech news last weekend was the report by the Wall Street Journal (paywalled here) that two of Apple’s…
A New Approach To Portfolio Construction For A New Year
A New Approach To Portfolio Construction With the New Year approaching, it’s time to consider a new approach to portfolio construction. Unlike most forms of…