Investment Strategies

QuantTrader – The Swiss army tool now also for individual investors

QuantTrader

Dear Subscribers, We are happy to announce that the full QuantTrader version is now available to individual investors for $150 a month or $1500 per year. We will cross-subsidize a bit with the high interest we´ve received from institutional investors like RIA and hedge-fund managers so far. Fair play requires that subscribers who manage their own or other people’s assets above $1m subscribe to the institutional offering. QuantTrader is a fine piece of art mixed with a … Read more

Enhancement of the Treasury hedge in our strategies

Hedge

For many years, most of our strategies used long term Treasuries (TLT, TMF) as a hedge against market corrections. These Treasuries have been a safe haven asset with negative correlation to the stock market and have been used successfully to reduce the risk/volatility of our strategies. With rising rates and inflation, long term treasuries lose a part of their value as a safe haven asset. Their hedging value depends mainly on the speed interest rates … Read more

Inverse volatility trading – A smart investment strategy for income

Why trade inverse volatility? Since 2011, trading inverse volatility has been the one of the most rewarding investment strategy in the markets with annual returns well above 30%, depending on the instruments used. Can I trade this? If you can trade ETFs in your account, you can trade an inverse volatility strategy. VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options; Often referred to as the fear index or the … Read more