TAM's Pedagogics: April 20th, 2011
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Kevin A. Tuttle is the CEO and Chief Strategist of the Money Management & Capital Services firm Tesseract Asset Management, LLC (TAM). TAM serves as the General Partner of Long/Short Equity & Alternative Investment Hedge Funds and operates a Capital Services division oriented toward small & medium size companies seeking capital. TAM also owns the registered investment advisory firm TAM Portfolios, LLC (TAMP), which offers Mr. Tuttle’s unparalleled Long Only Growth Portfolio (LOGP) Separately Managed Account (SMA).
Over the last 2 decades Kevin has become an industry-recognized technician and has distinguished himself with his signature 100-Year Market Theory and corresponding Dow Chart. His unique quantitative and technical approach to managing assets has lead TAM's growth and success since its inception.
‘Another day of earnings driven volatility for the books’, said most yesterday while attempting to determine whether they should weight more long, more short or remain neutral. Today some may be wishing they did something different (more long perhaps). The markets, vacillating between bullish and bearish on any given earnings-season-day, are beginning to build an intermediate-term channel which will eventually turn into the determining point for the second half of the year.
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When stock volatility (standard deviation) remains high (not to be confused with CBOE option – implied volatility – VIX), it’s typical to see a reduction in volume due to a lack of institutional conviction. Institutions – averaging tens of billions per portfolio, not 100’s of millions – can’t afford to be 100% directionally committed until clarity appears; due to their sheer size and time constraint of allocation shifting. These intermediate channels, not unlike the one from May – September of 2010, give the market time to take pause, build strength (in either direction) and catch many inexperienced traders off guard.
The inexperienced will have the tendency to overtrade which creates a constant second-guessing of proper positioning and allocation. These are the times where less is more and giving your portfolio more room to maneuver is a sanity necessity.
20-Years of experience – learn from my happenstances without having to live through your own.
I hope this helps.
KAT
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