Time to Rebalance, and I'm Moving Up in Cash

I probably could not have picked a worse day to do my reshaping, but here are the results:

Sales:

• Aspen Holdings (AHL)
• Flagstone Reinsurance (FSR)
• Redwood Trust (RWT)
• Mylan Labs
• Lafarge SA

Purchases:

• Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) (old friend, cheap price)
• Honda Motors (HMC)

Rebalancing Buys:

• Valero (VLO)
• ConocoPhillips (COP)
• Vishay Intertechnology (VSH)

Rebalancing Sale:

• Deerfield Capital (DFR)

I’m not done. My moves today raised cash from 5% to 10%, and trimmed positions from 36 to 33. I have room for two more ideas, and am working on where to place cash. My timing of buys and sells today was good — not that that is a key competency of mine by any means.

Aside from the sale of the reinsurers, which were just cheap placeholders, the other positions were not as relatively cheap as they once were. RGA and Honda are quality companies selling at bargain prices. If I had more names like those, I would buy them all day long.

Away from my broad market portfolio, I raised my equity exposure in my mutual funds fractionally today. Time to rebalance.

PS — I can’t remember another day quite like this, where the late negative to positive move was so pronounced.

Full disclosure: long DFR RGA HMC VLO COP VSH

Comments

[Alpha Seeker]

I don't know how you are but you have a golden star from SA. it sounds like you are smarter than many out there, however, you should have been in this proposed trade earlier.Still, you will outperform.
Rob
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