Investment Strategies

The new always hedged BUG Strategy backtests

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New always hedged BUG Strategy backtests The old BUG strategy behavior during the Corona crash: You see that the crash happened in between two rebalancing’s. As we have been in a 100% bull market scenario in February, the March strategy allocation was 40% Emerging market bonds and 20% Convertible bonds. Both are equity like bonds. The inflation protected TIP bond was not a strong enough hedge. As the crash happened very fast, there was no … Read more

The new always hedged Bond Rotation Investment Strategy backtests

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The old Bond Rotation Investment strategy behavior during the Corona crash: You see that the crash happened in between two rebalancing’s. As we have been in a 100% bull market scenario in February, the March strategy allocation was 60% Emerging market bonds and 40% Convertible bonds. Both are equity like bonds. As the crash happened very fast, there was no time to switch into a more defensive allocation. The max drawdown was -32% and the … Read more

Use Market Volatility to Save Your Portfolio

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

The Coronavirus Market Crash – Lessons learned

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Logical Invest in Bearish Mode Since January At the start of the year, before the CORVID-19 outbreak was known, we updated our strategies to better withstand a possible bear market or large correction. You can read the details here. A Two-Stage Correction In the first stage, hedges like gold and Treasuries worked well. Although the SP 500 took a free fall, the 30-year Treasury ETF went parabolic up as the 10-year yield touched 0.6%. Gold … Read more

2020 Logical-Invest strategy update

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

Why we employ walk-forward testing to avoid curve-fitting

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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

Enhancing Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio strategy using ETFs and monthly rebalancing

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Enhancing Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio The Permanent Portfolio is a simple, diversified portfolio You can construct it using 3 ETFs: SPY, TLT and GLD We enhance it by allowing variable allocations and monthly rebalancing We offer a free subscription so you can implement it in your own account including 401k or IRA  What is the Permanent Portfolio by Harry Browne Harry Browne’s intention was to find a solution for the money “you need to take care … Read more

Portfolio Builder: How to create a Portfolio of Portfolios

We’ve received a couple of request in the last weeks whether it is possible to create a “Portfolio of Portfolios” in our Portfolio Builder. For example, to create a portfolio holding several of our Core Portfolios plus a custom portfolio in a fixed-weight or custom blend. Or to combine a one of the portfolios in the Portfolio Library with a single strategy or ETF. Cases for this include: You like two of our preset portfolios … Read more

How to create a hedge strategy in times of market troubles

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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

Logical-Invest Investment Strategy changes for 2019

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We have made some quite important changes to the Logical Invest strategies for 2019. Please note that the January strategy allocations will be calculated based on these updated strategies. 401 / IRA compliant base strategies The new strategies will not use leveraged or inverse ETFs, making them and the portfolios derived from them, more 401 / IRA friendly. The changes have been backtested and do not reduce the performance of the strategies due to a … Read more