In a post on Wednesday (“Gold’s Bull Market”), Tim highlighted a breakout in the chart for the gold-tracking ETF GLD. Last month, Tim noted he was bullish on gold miners as well in the longer term, though they could face a pullback in the shorter term. For those long the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), here are a couple of ways to hedge it over the next several months. (more…)
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Another Week, Another Warning
Another Week, Another Warning
As the cyclical bull market that started in March 2009 has ground on, it seems that every week we’ve had warnings about its imminent end. On Friday, Market Watch columnist Michael Sincere weighed in with “Seven Signs We’re Near A Top”. To save you a click, here is a sample of Mr. Sincere’s analysis: (more…)
4%
If the monthly chart of the COMP is to be believed, 4% is the ‘reward’ side of the risk/reward equation in tech stocks. COMP could gobble that up in 3 days.
By Request
In my last post (“A New Approach To Portfolio Construction“), I showed a couple examples of Portfolio Armor‘s new portfolio construction tool in action. You may recall our approach there in broad strokes:
- Find securities with the highest expected returns net of their hedging costs (high “net expected returns”) at your particular risk tolerance.
- Hedge them. (more…)
A New Approach To Portfolio Construction
A New Approach to Portfolio Construction
Hey Fellow Slopers,
Last month, I posted here about a new feature we were working on at Portfolio Armor (“The Hedged Returns Approach”). In that post, I mentioned a couple of problems with typical, long-only, unhedged portfolios: (more…)
