ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Market Corrections

James Kimball | October 5, 2015

The Country ETF models continue to be in primarily cash with one short position in EFZ in the models. Performance of the Country models were roughly inverse to the benchmark closing down about -0.7% vs the ACWI positive +1.6%. The …


ETF Sector Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 5)

James Kimball | September 28, 2015

The Conservative and Moderate model have one lone position in XHB and the rest in cash, while the Aggressive is in SDS. The overall market was lower though the Conservative and Moderate held up better due primarily to its cash …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 5)

James Kimball |

The Country ETF models continue to be primarily cash with one short position in EFZ. This lone short position and cash allowed the model to outperform the global benchmark by almost 3% on the week. Markets remain volatile. There were …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 5)

James Kimball |

The ETF Complete model continues to be primarily in cash with a few short positions in SDS, VXX, EFZ, EUM and the one long position in XHB. The model marginally outperformed the SPY which was flat on the week. We …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 4)

James Kimball | September 21, 2015

The ETF Complete model continues to be primarily in cash with a few short positions in SDS, VXX, EFZ, EUM. We did get stopped out of one position in SDS in the Sector Moderate model and we substituted our short …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 4)

James Kimball |

The Country ETF models continue to be primarily cash with one short position in EFZ. In the last couple of weeks, this has meant that if the market was down, we were up and vice-versa. This week was no different …


ETF Sector Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 4)

James Kimball |

The Sector ETF models continue to be in primarily cash with one short position in SH/SDS and XHB in two of the models (Sector Moderate was stopped out of SDS on Thursday). Performance was relatively flat relative to the SPY …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 3)

James Kimball | September 14, 2015

The ETF Complete model continues to be primarily in cash with a few short positions in SDS, QID, EFZ, EUM. In the last couple of weeks, this has meant that if the market was down, we were up and vice-versa. …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 3)

James Kimball |

The Country ETF models continue to be primarily cash with one short position in EFZ. In the last couple of weeks, this has meant that if the market was down, we were up and vice-versa. This week was no different …


ETF Sector Plus Strategy Insights: Crazy Market Volatility (Part 3)

James Kimball |

The Sector ETF models continue to be in primarily cash with one short position in SH/SDS. In the last couple of weeks, this has meant that if the market was down, we were up and vice-versa. This week was no …