Muscular Investing March 28, 2019 at 05:00 AM
Using multiple types of assets in a portfolio isn’t just a theory. It works in the real world to cut your losses and increase your gains. • Only in the past few years have all of the major global asset classes achieved representation by low-cost exchange-traded funds... Read More
Muscular Investing March 26, 2019 at 11:45 AM
Diversification works well in sample cases, but how about in actual trading? In this article, we’ll combine two assets you can actually buy and sell... Read More
Muscular Investing March 21, 2019 at 05:00 AM
Diversification works in mysterious ways. But does that mean diversifying a portfolio is a hard thing to do? No! It’s actually quite simple. • The problem is that it’s not obvious exactly HOW diversification improves a portfolio’s return. It’s not rocket science... Read More
Muscular Investing March 19, 2019 at 05:00 AM
We often hear that we should diversify, diversify. Why should we do so? For greater gains. But the way to do this is seldom laid out clearly. • The secrets of diversification are not obvious... Read More
Muscular Investing March 14, 2019 at 05:30 AM
It’s often assumed that stock markets follow a ‘normal distribution’ — a bell curve — but there’s nothing normal about the way stocks behave... Read More
Muscular Investing March 12, 2019 at 04:00 AM
In a monumental achievement, backtests of 39,832 trading rules by researchers at Columbia University and Academia Sinica resulted in a big discovery. • None of the gains were statistically significant in ‘mature’ markets such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500... Read More
Muscular Investing March 07, 2019 at 05:00 AM
When you find an investment strategy that has worked in the past, how do you know it will work in the future? We may just be overconfident... Read More
Muscular Investing March 05, 2019 at 05:00 AM
We can look and look at data and wind up perfectly comfortable with our observations. But how can we be sure we really understand what we’re seeing? • The human mind has its own way of presenting the external world to us, just when we think we have everything figured out... Read More
