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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Portfolios Update

Demonstration of the koru/infinity design that...
Demonstration of the koru/infinity design that an e-portfolio follows: gather, feedback, reflect. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The correction of the market is testing the goodness of our portfolios. The use of protection mechanisms have given excellent results. For example, the closed positionsof our Medium-Term Growth Portfolio added performance of 174% so far this year. For the Active Ultra 3Q Portfolio, this result came to 160%. Not far away is the Breakout Portfolio which records 120% of the sum of the closed positions during the current year.

The only portfolio that continues to experience significant drops in their results is the Passive Ultra 3Q. The nature of this portfolio makes it vulnerable to market movements. Should be remembered that this is a cumulative portfolio (which means that every monthyou take a new position) and passive (which means it does not have stop losses orinvestment alternatives).

In this sense, it is very interesting to compare the performance of the various portfolios,especially those with long and short positions with other with only long positions.



As we have been mentioning in recent months, our methodology provides basically two components. First, the portfolio should be flexible enough to include positions longs and shorts (or inverse ETF). The market has shown, in particular from  the year 2.000, fluctuations in the valuations of stocks forces us to be "on both sides of the market" if wesucceed in our investments.

We are very active in the market since 1992We were brought up with the "earlier paradigm". However, we recognize that as of 2000, a new reality moves the stockmarket. This is especially true for personal portfolios, and even for institutional portfoliosthat we are so great.
This reality, for example, makes it difficult for large long-term funds, to have good yields.This despite the huge liquidity that has pumped into the market in recent yearsI mentionthis because this flow has allowed these funds to take new positions "average price" of their old positionsHowever, this has not been sufficient to enhance its profitability significantly.



Our second element is the use of "Stops" in all our positions. This mechanism allows you to boost our profits and minimize our lossesIn this special circumstance, the use of "stops" has been very important to get the great results experiencedPlease click here to see the behavior of each of these portfolios.
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