Investment Strategies

Many investors are liquidating their portfolios with huge losses. They sell all asset classes from equity to Treasuries and gold. I will explain here a better strategy to cut losses. Below is a chart of our Logical Invest Permanent Portfolio Strategy which invests in the 3 main assets: equity (SP&500), Treasuries and gold. The strategy uses a variable allocation of Treasuries and gold to hedge against equity losses. As you can see in the below … Read more

Starting January 1 2020, we are implementing several modifications to our strategies to make them less volatile and more stable. The biggest modification concerns the Hedge strategy. As this sub-strategy is a major part of all of our ‘hedged’ strategies, any change in this sub-strategy automatically affects the strategies themselves. We are also implementing a new limit for allocations between hedge and equity. The equity/hedge allocations will now range from 40%-60%, which makes sure our … Read more

How we backtest our trading strategies, how we avoid overfitting by using walk-forward testing and why we adapt our strategies from time to time. One of the main questions we get is this: Why do we change  the set of parameters from time to time? Is this not just curve-fitting to improve the system performance? Some think, that once you developed a strategy, you should never change it. They argue this is the only way to … Read more

In this article I would like to explain how to create a hedge strategy for an equity position, so that draw-downs, like the current one (December 2018), are minimized. During this 10-year bull market, many investors have forgotten that investing only in equities can be quite risky. It has been simple to buy the SPY S&P 500 ETF and profit from rising valuations. This year-end 20% correction makes many investors reconsider safe haven assets like … Read more