Mebane Faber, the creator of the IVY timing portfolio, has recently released an official update of the model with returns through the end of 2012. He also did a series of posts on his blog that chops up the update into more digestible pieces. For an intro to this topic […]
Time for the IVY timing portfolio trading signals for the end of June 2013. You can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of May 2013. Another source I’ve found for IVY updates is Scott’s Investments. He updates a spreadsheet that details the […]
Time for the IVY timing portfolio trading signals for the end of May 2013. You can see the signals at world beta or my preferred source dshort. Below are the signals for the end of May 2013. Another source I’ve found for IVY updates is Scott’s Investments. He updates a spreadsheet that details the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Today I want to discuss what I consider to be the best alternative to the IVY timing portfolio. For those of you new to the blog, I think that most investors default portfolio should be the IVY timing portfolio. For background see here. It gives investors good returns and great […]
Yesterday was the last trading day for the month of September 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. As usual you can see the […]