Showing posts with label #invest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #invest. Show all posts

Monday, 28 April 2025

USING STRIKE PUTS AS PORTFOLIO PROTECTION

28 April 2025 What would it be worth to you to be sure that your portfolio couldn't lose more than 10% this year? That's what buying a put option could do for you, and at little cost.Because people think that buying options is a most complicated subject, we are going to start complicated, in the introduction below! But all the terms and ideas used will be unpacked in the following few paragraphs, and at the end, for anyone who gets to the end,...

Thursday, 10 April 2025

YOUR INVESTMENT STRATEGY

10 April 2025YOUR INVESTMENT STRATEGY Your investment strategies are clear - for short-term projects such as saving for a deposit on a house*, then put your money into something safe - a single government bond that matures in a few months to coincide with your anticipated purchase; or even easier is a money market fund.- for longer term projects going as far as retirement, just carry on drip feeding into a world index with a low...

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

MEDIUM TERM MARKET TREND MODEL TURNS BEARISH.

12 March 2025Medium-Term Market Trend Model Turns BearishSummary of this report from Investopedia's Chart Advisor.Key takeaway : The medium-term trend turning bearish suggests that investors should be cautious in the coming months.With things as they are today, maybe the best tactic is wait-and-hope for a bounce over the next week or two....perhaps up until june... and then out of developed market ETFs for the remainder of the year.... "all things...

Saturday, 22 February 2025

HAVE MARKETS PEAKED, OR IS THIS JUST A PAUSE

22 February 2025 There's something going on in the markets. They are set to pause, perhaps worse. Why?Markets seem to be topping. Take VHVG, SGLN, ZPRW and WSML, draw a horizontal line at what looks like the top, and then mark in a stop loss 7% below that. As / if price dips towards that stop loss, we should be thinking about what to do next if we are to preserve wealth.For example, this chart, taken from 11 February, shows that for YTD,...