Last week’s market pullback did affect all of our portfolios, although only one position slipped enough to trigger its trailing sell stop. As I posted last Friday, that was the volatile commodity sector, in which we had holdings via the DBC index, which were sold. The winner for last week turned out to be the ETF income portfolio (#5), which …
6 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 5/3/2011
As announced last Sunday, I have added the Ivy ETF Portfolio in this line up. It’s indentified as Portfolio #6. All portfolios held pretty steady during the past 5 trading days, but came off their highs made last Friday, the last day of April. The S&P 500 gained 0.74% for this period. With a little bit of weakness having set …
ETF Portfolio Tables Fixed
When I changed blogging platforms a few weeks ago, I did not realize that the feature of clicking on tables and charts to enlarge them for better viewing and printing had not been set up. This has been fixed as of today and will be available from here on forward. Unfortunately, the program does not go back and change previous …
5 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 4/26/2011
It was up, up and away as far as our model portfolios was concerned with the worst one “only” gaining 2% during the past 4 trading days. Especially the income portfolio rocketed higher by gaining over 3%. Obviously, there is no guarantee that this will continue but, right now, the ETF Income portfolio is clearly in tune with market momentum. …
5 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use—Updated through 4/19/2011
This past week has shown some volatility, especially with Monday’s pullback, but all model portfolios gained with the exception of the income portfolio, which dropped slightly. Again, there is no right or wrong, or better or worse, when it comes to portfolios; the only thing that matters is what’s appropriate for your particular circumstances. Let’s take a look at the …
Correction
In the previous post, featuring the 5 Model ETF portfolios, the starting date was given as 12/31/2011. That obviously was supposed to be 12/31/2010. My mistake. Sorry. Ulli…