I play the long short game with the following indexes and stocks. That means I have a bull and bear. Dow, 500, Nasdaq, Small Cap, Mid Cap, International, Emerging Market, China, Energy, Financial, Gold, Real Estate, Financial, Retail, Arkk, Bitcoin, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Nivida, High Yield Bonds, Long Term Treasuries and Immediate Treasuries.
Since I already have energy, financial and real estate covered, that leaves the other 8 sectors of the 11 in the 500. So I have those 8 plus the 37 different subsectors I have chosen. I hedge them against treasuries of floating rate, 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 7 year, 10 year, 20 year, 30 year and Tips.
My portfolio will always be green and red. At any time I will have something up that I can cherry pick from.
What is a sub sector? In financial you will have insurance, brokers, large banks, regional banks
In health you will have bio tech, medical devices, pharmaceuticals
In the Reits I have discussed before, you have warehouse, data centers, communication towers, medical offices, apartments, storage
I cover as much as the economy I can and let the market tell me what to buy and sell. I do not look at balance sheets, I do not look at charts. I do not use stop orders, I do not use limit orders, I do not use options. I do not listen to experts. I keep it simple and just use what is above or below my baseline.
This works for me. Gamblers do not like it because it is to boring for them. i share it to help to others because it may work for them. i mention I use the stock market for freedom. That means never having to worry about running out of money like many have done and had to return back to work in the senior years.
But that freedom is at risk if others fail in the stock market or never learn it. Because people never accept the responsibility of their actions and mistakes. So if they gamble with the stock market and lose, they will blame the system and accuse it of being rigged for the rich. Thus, they will vote for communism and socialist ideas.
My system takes the gambling out of the stock market. Automatically forces you to sell high and buy low. With all I have, for me to lose everything, that means the planet has been destroyed by an asteroid. I do not have an ETF that covers asteroids striking earth.
Again, it may not be for everyone. But anyone who attacks me for it, is just an egotistical nitpicker who loves to hear themselves talk by trying to impress people by making things complicated.
