Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Holiday ETF Review One
My Three Sons
If I were to characterize the nature of my portfolio currently, it would be like the old saying: “Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.” Well, ok, it’s three baskets. Instead of having dozens of positions based on individual equities, I’ve changed to a very small number of ETFs. I wanted to walk through those with updated charts.
First up is my anchor position, the utilities XLU. It’s doing great. The profit on the options is about 53%, and I think its move is just getting started. This is probably my favorite chart in months, if not years.
Some ETF Quick Takes
Happy Monday, everyone. There are just eight trading days left after today in the lovely, lovely year of 2023. I wanted to touch on three ETFs that had been covered over the weekend. First off, there is commodities (DBC) which I suggested would be in for a tumble following that nice tinted rounded top. Well, it’s down hard, and I’m not quite sure why, since oil (its biggest component) is up. Still, down is down.
