Time for the IVY timing portfolio trading signals for the end of April 2013. You can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of April 2013. Another source I’ve found for IVY updates is Scott’s Investments. He updates a spreadsheet that details Read more
For my first post back I want to update the last post I did before my hiatus. On Feb 10, I posted on how well the MLP sector did in January, with it being the second best January ever, and that good early year performance usually leads to strong results Read more
Time for the IVY timing portfolio trading signals for the end of January 2013. As usual you can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of January 2013. Dshort posted this update during the day but I have confirmed that the signals Read more
Well, that didn’t take long at all. After a pretty robust January for stocks, about 5% for the SP500, it was just a matter of time before the gloom and doomers found a new reason to squeal ‘the sky is about to fall’…… again. Amazing when just a simple focus Read more
All the year end results are in so its time to update the performance of the retirement portfolios that I track. I’ll quickly review 2012 performance for the IVY portfolios, the Permanent Portfolio, and the traditional 60% /40% stock-bond portfolio. Then I’ll put them in context of their long run Read more
Happy New Year everyone. Hard to believe its 2013 already. Time to look back at 2012 and see how I did versus my retirement goals. For those interested the 2011 review is here and the 2010 review is here. This marks the end of our 3rd year living the full Read more
Time for the final IVY portfolio trading signals for 2012. As usual you can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of December 2012. No new signals were triggered this month. The portfolio is fully invested just like it was last Read more
A relatively non eventful month for my portfolio, especially compared to last month, but nonetheless there were a few changes made. Most of the changes that were made were short term in nature given my uncertainty in the market. All my IRA accounts are run on the IVY timing portfolio Read more
Friday was the last trading day of November. Time to update the IVY timing signals. As usual you can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of November 2012. The new signal for the month is a buy signal for DBC. Read more
A little late for this month’s portfolio review but there has been a lot going on lately on the personal front. My apologies. This month there was a lot of changes to the portfolio. I’m mostly in cash now and starting to make a new shopping list. Lets get to Read more
Today was the last trading day for the month of October 2012. Time to take a look at look at the month end closing prices for the ETFs that make up the IVY timing model and see if any actions need to be taken. Sorry for the delay in posting Read more