The holidays are behind us now. It’s time to get to work trimming down… your portfolio. As I’ve been saying for much of the past year, individual investors have incredible advantages over large investors and institutions. One of those advantages is the ability to have more concentrated portfolios. We’re going to start 2018 off with some strategies for trimming down…

One of the biggest mistakes we see investors make is focusing too much on capturing the turn-points at market bottoms and tops. Yes, we all love to nail the bottom to the day and sell at the exact top, but as a long-term wealth building strategy, it just doesn’t work. We’re much better off capturing the meat in the middle….

As a TradeStops member, you know our mantra is to always have an exit strategy. One powerful exit strategy is to focus on the overall state of your portfolio by using the Portfolio Volatility Quotient (PVQ) Analyzer tool. If you have a long-term portfolio that’s sitting on large unrealized gains, it can be difficult to monitor the historical high-water mark…