That is up $203,740 since our January 19th review of our paired Long and Short-Term Portfolios.and that was up $309,256 from December so we are rocking AND rolling during all this messy volatility and we're up $2,122,442 from our $600,000 ($500,000 for the LTP, $100,000 for the STP) start back in October of 2019.
Our paired portfolio strategy is fairly simple, we buy long positions in the LTP and we buy hedges in the STP but THEN we look to hedge each portfolio internally – so we are always looking for ways to sell premium against our existing positions – which forces us to be balnaced – which make us the most money in a flat, choppy market (high premiums and we make money on both ends) – which is exactly the sweet spot we've moved into since early Novermber:
It's not that we can't make money in an up market – we ground out $1.6M worth of gains in the first two years but, in the last two months, we were able to make over $500,000 – though it's certainly not a pace that we're likely to keep up. Whenever we are making more money than we're supposed to – we have to be concerned that we're heading into a period where we'll make less money than we expect to and, BEFORE that happens, we need to be sure the battle will be worth the fight – or the risk!
However, we have a wonderful balance between the LTP and the STP and we just did our LTP Review in yesterday's Live Member Chat Room along with the Money Talk Portfolio Review yesterday morning and our STP Review was Tuesday, where we determined with have $726,610 of downside protection against a 20% pullback in the market. The trick to being balanced is that we make about as much as we lose on the way down (anything better than covering half our losses is acceptable) while, on the way up, we expect our hedging losses to eat up about 1/3 of our gains. It's very hard to get that balance right but we've spent 2 years on it and now…
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