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The improvements on Slope don’t stop, even on weekends!
After we introduced the Correlations page, only a couple of days ago, a Sloper wrote me and asked if we could add a dropdown so you could choose the amount of time for the correlations calculation. Done!
It has been 75 days since the tragic cessation of the one-month long bear market, and while the Stonks Only Go Up meme is totally saturated into the public mindspace, I think the ten charts below are worth your time. I’ve said a few words about each in the caption.
Regarding the brand new SlopeAlerts feature, TheQuietOne asked the following in the comments section:
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series ValueWalk is doing on tail risk hedge funds. The series is based on several weeks of research and discussions with over a dozen experts in the field. All the content will be first available to our premium subscribers and some will be released at a later date for all readers. If you want to see the full series and support us please click here.
Many tail-risk hedge funds posted astonishing gains during the March selloff, with at least one fund reporting a gain of over 3,000%. However, it’s important for investors to read between the lines when it comes to choosing which hedge funds to invest in.
Whenever looking at the returns of any fund, especially tail-risk funds, it’s important to make sure you’re doing an apples-to-apples comparison by using the same measurement of returns across all the funds you’re comparing.
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