In the event of a sustained decline, the call options will lose their value, which will place the Fund again in
a fully hedged position.
The objectively identified Market Climate is sufficient to hold us to
a fully hedged position.
For now, the current Market Climate holds us to
a fully hedged position.
The current Market Climate holds us to
a fully hedged position.
We continue to carry
a fully hedged position.
The Market Climate remains on a Warning here, which holds us to
a fully hedged position based on current, observable evidence.
Not exact matches
Far from being perma - bearish, our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long
position about 52 % of the time in market cycles across history, encouraging a partially -
hedged stance about 12 % of the time,
fully -
hedged about 31 % of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today about 5 % of the time.
As for the Fund, we are simply neutral, with our stock
positions fully hedged.
The Strategic Growth Fund remains
fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike»
position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).
Accordingly, the Strategic Growth Fund is now back to a
fully -
hedged investment stance - meaning that the Fund continues to be
fully invested in a broadly diversified group of stocks that appear to have some combination of favorable valuation and favorable market action, while at the same time, the Fund carries an offsetting short
position of equal size in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices (using option combinations that mimic short futures contracts) intended to mute the impact of broad market fluctuations on the Fund.
Our
fully invested stock portfolio remains
fully hedged with an offsetting short
position in the Russell 2000 and S&P 100 indices.
The Strategic Growth Fund moved to another all - time high (including reinvested distributions) last week, and also moved back to a
fully -
hedged investment
position.
We remain
fully invested in favored stocks, but those
positions remain
fully hedged.
At present, the evidence holds us a
fully hedged investment
position.
Shouldn't we worry about our
fully -
hedged investment
position?
The present, identifiable Market Climate is negative, and that is sufficient to place us in a defensive,
fully -
hedged position.
So while the Strategic Growth Fund remains
fully hedged at present, it's important to recognize that this is not at all a
position that I prefer, or that I believe will persist indefinitely.
It's important to recognize that a
fully -
hedged stance is not a «standard» or even «typical»
position for the Strategic Growth Fund.
As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks remained characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Growth Fund to a
fully hedged investment
position.
As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks was characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Growth Fund to a
fully -
hedged investment
position.
In the Strategic Growth Fund, that puts us in the
position of being
fully hedged, but with a small speculative call option
position that I would expect to increase toward 2 % of assets if the market pulls back somewhat further without a significant deterioration in market internals.
Presently, Strategic Growth Fund remains
fully hedged, with a staggered - strike
position that raises the strike prices of the Fund's index put options somewhat closer to market levels, representing about 1 % of assets looking well into springtime.
The investment manager expects to hold an unhedged,
fully - invested
position in common stocks in environments where the expected return from market risk is believed to be high, and may reduce or «
hedge» the exposure of the Fund's stock portfolio to the impact of general market fluctuations in environments where the expected return from market risk is believed to be unfavorable.
Strategic Growth Fund remains
fully hedged, with a staggered - strike
position that raises the strike prices of our index put options somewhat closer to market levels, representing about 1 % of assets in option premium looking out to springtime.
Strategic Growth remains
fully hedged, with a staggered - strike put option
position that raises the put option portion of our
hedge to higher strikes, but ones that remain well out - of - the - money.