ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Sound and Fury

James Kimball | November 23, 2015

The ETF Complete model put in a mostly flat week, trailing the benchmark which was up just over 3%. A strong performance from our Sector holdings were offset by weaker performance in the Country and Global Macro models who continue …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Rolling Return (Part 2)

James Kimball | November 15, 2015

The ETF Complete model had moved to a more positive stance but that appears short lived as we have a number of position changes going into next week. We also got stopped out of our SOXL position on Friday. Performance …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Rolling Return

James Kimball | November 8, 2015

The ETF Complete model has moved considerably back towards a net long exposure in the last two weeks. We still have two short positions (EUM, EFZ). Our performance lagged marginally behind the SPY which closed just positive on the week. …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Global Survey (Part 3)

James Kimball | November 2, 2015

The ETF Complete model has moved considerably back towards a net long exposure in the last two weeks. We still have two short positions (EUM, EFZ). Our performance lagged marginally behind the SPY which closed just positive on the week. …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Global Survey (Part 2)

James Kimball | October 26, 2015

The ETF Complete model has started to make the transition back into long oriented positions – primarily starting with U.S. Sectors. The performance this week continued to lag due to our allocation but we can expect some changes with the …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Global Survey

James Kimball | October 19, 2015

The ETF Complete model continues to be in primarily cash with a few short positions in SDS/EFZ/EUM/VXX in two of the models. Performance of the ETF models was again roughly the inverse of the SPY. After some decent selling pressure …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Market Corrections (Part 2)

James Kimball | October 11, 2015

The ETF Complete model continues to be in primarily cash with a few short positions in SDS/EFZ/EUM/VXX in two of the models (Sector Moderate was stopped out of SDS on last week). Performance of the ETF models was precisely inverse …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Market Corrections

James Kimball | October 5, 2015

The ETF Complete model continues to be in primarily cash with a few short positions in SDS/EFZ/EUM/VXX in two of the models (Sector Moderate was stopped out of SDS on last week). Performance of the ETF models was precisely inverse …


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

James Kimball | September 28, 2015

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 …