Making ETF 20/20 More Awesome Page 1 Portfolio Update Page 5 Questions & Answers Page 8 Conclusion Page 8 Making ETF 20/20 More Awesome The biggest question we get these days is: If the Awesome Portfolio is so awesome, why do I need ETF 20/20? Well, we are slowly moving…
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…the Portfolio Page 3 ETF News Page 7 Portfolio Update Page 8 Conclusion Page 10 One of the most enjoyable parts of SIC this year in San Diego was the ETF cage match between me, Steve Cucchiaro, Jan Van Eck, and Steven Bregman. Back when I was trading ETFs ten…
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…Escalated Quickly Page 1 ETF Industry News Page 5 Portfolio Update Page 8 Conclusion Page 11 It sure did escalate quickly—the fourth fastest 10% drop in history! Why? Because there was a lot of leverage in the system. I know a lot of readers are at the beginning of their…
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…to buy a REIT ETF. There are many to choose from. We will choose one that is big and liquid. The nice thing about REITs is that they provide income, so they will replace some of the income we lost by mostly selling out of bonds. Commodities are a bit…
…technical issues in the vol market, and I think there is plenty of stress and panic out there. If you look at sentiment measures, people are even more pessimistic today than they were in 2011. The drawdown has been very uneven. Some stocks are down 70%, 80%, 90%, or more,…
…on the Bloomberg show ETF-IQ, a rather long interview that turned out pretty well. Interestingly, I am comfortable speaking in front of crowds and on the radio and other settings, but I get a bit nervous on TV. Like anything else, it is practice—I just need to do it more.…
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…We are short this ETF. Good news for us. But it’s more than just a wiseguy trade for the Street Freak portfolio. People believed in momentum like it was a religion. You had trend traders out there saying that momentum always outperforms. As we know, nothing always happens in the…
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…taken command of the ETF desk at Lehman Brothers. My wife was getting laser eye surgery. I had to take time off work to pick her up at the doctor’s office around noon. The doctor’s office was over on the East Side, around 49th and 1st Avenue. I was supposed…
…environment from January, when vol exploded and marked the lows in stocks. Moving along, let’s dig into some data and charts. The Month in Charts As I said earlier, tech is broken. So I’ve got some charts to shed some light on what’s going on. The first one shows the…
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