Check out my latest blog post giving you the background on the portfolio and a link to the full listing
of stock positions in the portfolio.
How can I calculate the return on a
series of stock positions with multiple uneven transactions that I can compare to the equivalent buy and hold return over the same period?
During the year, the mutual fund realized $ 15 million in total capital gains from the
sale of stock positions in its portfolio.
Multiply the time needed by the
number of stock positions and you're looking at having a second job which may or may not turn out to be profitable.
We also looked at full portfolios for a fundamentally weighted and an equal - weighted index and found they executed countercyclical trades (buying underperforming stocks and selling outperforming stocks) in 75 %
of their stock positions at the latest reconstitution.
You need to adopt a trader's mind - set (plus some technical analysis) to properly manage and to scale in /
out of your stock positions.
Meanwhile, Strategic International also remains fully hedged, and Strategic Dividend Value remains hedged at about 50 % of the
value of its stock positions — its most defensive position.
If you want to hedge a small percentage of the current price risk of the stock you could buy 20 — 25 Delta puts, meaning you are hedging 20 — 25 %
of your stock position.
As soon as the rest of the businesses in my investment portfolio will release 2016 results and dividend announcements, I will update my chart and briefly cover
each of my stock positions.