High Performance KISS systems

    Posted by matt on 29th of Oct 2023 at 10:09 pm

    The custom high performance KISS systems I'm looking to add will be: QQQ, SPY, IWM, GLD, GDX, AAPL, maybe DBC. If that monthly SPX rally is a larger B wave rally and we have another leg of a bear market, I'll want some instruments that can do well in a bear market since the KISS is long only even the high performance versions of SPY and QQQ will obviously greatly outperform those instruments, in a bear market enviroment the gains won't be big, so I'll want a few instruments that could move more in such an enviroment 

    DigiNomad - I may look to add Bitcoin to custom KISS as well

    how about URA and an

    Posted by skwan1940 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 11:06 am

    how about URA and an oil services ETF like OIH/XOP- these sectors look promising in coming years

    I was going to suggest

    Posted by jonesy85 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 11:22 am

    I was going to suggest the magnificent 7, SPY, QQQ, IWM, GDX, SSO, QLD 

    IMO, I would love to

    Posted by skwan1940 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 11:34 am

    IMO, I would love to see the stats on a basket of assets that are not highly correlated so the performance of the portfolio would be good in any market environment.  Decades ago Harry Browne wrote a book on the Permanent Portfolio in which he talked about an all weather portfolio: stocks, gold, bonds, etc.  There is a mutual fund that mirrors this: The Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds (permanentportfoliofunds.com).  People like Ray Dalio have their own version of it as well.  If I were to construct an all weather portfolio it would be something like this: DBC, USO, EEM, GLD/GLD, IWM, QQQ, SPY, TLT/AGG, BITO

    Sounds great in theory, but

    Posted by DigiNomad on 30th of Oct 2023 at 11:37 am

    Sounds great in theory, but excessive diversification leads to subpar returns over time and sort of flies in the face of using technical analysis for active management.  My experience is that really well constructed "all weather portfolios" may return 5% per year. That's great if the 10 year is near 0%, but not so great if it's at 5% or higher.  On the plus side, if you want 5% through thick and thin, you can get it today, for the next 5 years, without touching equities or riskier than advertised corporate bonds.

    Noted.  The key to improving

    Posted by skwan1940 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 12:35 pm

    Noted.  The key to improving on an all weather portfolio is knowing when to rebalance back to the orig allocations and that is when technical analysis comes in.  So if Matt has a supercharged system for these uncorrelated assets, the return should be much improved.  I have a version of the permanent portfolio and have improved the returns over just a simple thoughtless yearly or quarterly rebalancing.  I rebalance when prices are stretched to the upside or downside based on std deviation over bollinger bands.  

    I overall disagree with his

    Posted by matt on 30th of Oct 2023 at 01:22 pm

    I overall disagree with his comments, kind of negative nancy there

    the performance is 2 to 5X over buy/hold. while the draw down is 6 - 10 fold less.  Again there's no guarantee that future performance will match past results, but if they get close or even 1/2 the performance, they will do extremely well.  5%? come on, I wouldn't waste my time if I was expecting that

    Curious Would TLT long term

    Posted by jonesy85 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 01:29 pm

    Curious Would TLT long term treasury ETF trade well on the super kiss 78 min or better on a weekly?  

    awesome stuff Matt!  Will definitely

    Posted by jonesy85 on 30th of Oct 2023 at 08:14 am

    awesome stuff Matt!  Will definitely be signing up for this added content!

    Nice. Would love to see

    Posted by DigiNomad on 29th of Oct 2023 at 11:39 pm

    Nice. Would love to see BTC in there. Unless the ETF gets rejected...then all bets are off. haha

    yes have to use BTC

    Posted by matt on 30th of Oct 2023 at 12:12 pm

    yes have to use BTC or futures, the ETF's don't have history and things like BITO etc are not very corrleated. 

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