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Article #637) What is the Ideal "Long Volatility" Trade Frequency for Tail Risk?
VTS Community, We've dedicated three blogs in the last several weeks talking about the bizarre nature of this market sell off. More...
Brent Osachoff
Feb 24, 20226 min read


Article #636) Part 2 - 5 Volatility Ranges - Our Beta : SPX Exposure During Each
VTS Community, In Part 1 of this article yesterday (read Part 1 here if you missed it) we talked about why "Buy and Hold" investing is...
Brent Osachoff
Feb 17, 20227 min read


Article #635) Part 1 - 5 Volatility Ranges - Our Expected Portfolio Positions During Each
VTS Community, The vast majority of the investment world is what we would consider buy and hold investors. Now it's hard to put an exact...
Brent Osachoff
Feb 16, 20226 min read


Article #634) 4 Types of Drawdowns and Their Root Cause
VTS Community, With the S&P 500 down over 7% from its highs and the Nasdaq down about 11%, we also find ourselves in an uncomfortable...
Brent Osachoff
Jan 21, 20228 min read


Article #633) Tactical Volatility on hold, Aggressive Vol will take the lead
VTS Community, As we've talked about throughout this week, there are very few functional changes to the portfolio to start 2022. Most of...
Brent Osachoff
Jan 7, 20226 min read


Article #632) Part 5 - VB Threshold strategy through the 2020 pandemic
VTS Community, Continuing on with the discussion on VTS strategies during the pandemic, we'll talk about what could be considered the...
Brent Osachoff
Nov 15, 20216 min read


Article #631) Part 4 - Tactical Volatility strategy through the 2020 pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 27, 20215 min read


Article #630) Part 3 - Tactical Balanced strategy through the 2020 pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 14, 20214 min read


Article #629) Part 2 - Defensive Rotation strategy through the pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation Part 3: ...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 12, 20214 min read


Article #628) Part 1: How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic?
VTS Community, Part 1: How did VTS strategies really do during the pandemic? In a planned 6 part series of articles over the next...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 11, 20216 min read


Article #627) Best Asset Class for Low Volatility? Why it's NOT Stocks
VTS Community, In this article from last week, we went over the performance of 13 different ETFs and asset classes that could potentially...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 8, 20215 min read


Article #626) Tactical Investing WHIPSAW! - What is it, how to reduce it?
VTS Community, All methods of investing have advantages and disadvantages so determining what style a person will adopt is just a matter...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 6, 20215 min read


Article #625) Tactical Long Volatility Allocations are Difficult, but Important
VTS Community, Appreciate all the engaging emails about yesterday's blog, and there was a lot of good feedback on what asset class would...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 1, 20216 min read


Article #624) What's the Best Asset Class for Safety when Volatility is elevated?
VTS Community, As we continue the quest to make improvements to the VB Threshold strategy that crushed it for years but has recently been...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 30, 20215 min read


Article #623) VTS Beta:SPX exposure when Aggressive, Safety, or Quasi Market Short
VTS Community, Given all the uncertainties in the market right now, Evergrande, Fed taper talk, the debt ceiling, volatility metrics are...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 22, 20214 min read


Article #621) Growth vs Value Correlation is alarmingly low
VTS Community, Growth vs Value correlation is at extreme lows: When trying to gauge the pulse of market participants and potential risk...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 31, 20213 min read


Article #620) Investing Success Requires Decoupling from the S&P - Low Correlation Investing
VTS Community, Decoupling from the market is hard sometimes... I've mentioned this in a few livestreams and people are always surprised...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 13, 20216 min read


Article #619) Tactical Balanced strategy explained - Stocks Bonds Gold - Covid Adjustment
VTS Community, Tactical Balanced strategy since Jul 17, 2006 * Remember live trading started January 1st, 2012, but since the strategy is...
Brent Osachoff
Jul 27, 20215 min read


Article #618) Is the Market Crashing? - The Cash VIX Term Structure might know the answer
VTS Community, I've timestamped our most recent livestream from Saturday and will send that out to the general VTS newsletter today so...
Brent Osachoff
Jul 19, 20214 min read


Article #617) Why move from Stocks to Bonds in Low Volatility? - Defensive Rotation VGLT vs QQQ
VTS Community, Today I'd like to preemptively answer an important question that I suspect might start coming up soon in my email inbox. ...
Brent Osachoff
Jul 13, 20214 min read
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