To those of you who are interested in the markets and managing your own capital:
Taking your investment portfolio into your hands is doable, but requires 3 virtues:
If you can't consistently maintain these three qualities with you portfolio, I recommend you sticking with a financial advisor.
I have no control over how you handle your emotions and how much effort you put into paying attention to market trends. But, I can help you with your plan by showing you my portfolio strategy. This is by no means a recommendation for all. This is a plan I created for myself alone. You, however, may find that it is also suitable to your goals.
The majority of my portfolio will be held in cash. 40 percent of this cash will be used for short term trades (mostly options trades) as they present themselves. The other 60 percent of this cash is being held in preparation of entering a long term short position on the stock market. The tools I am using to short the market are a few different Inverse ETF's that I've talked about before:
Make sure you understand the risks of using inverse ETFs before putting your money into them.
I'm holding such as large portion of cash because I believe having liquid capital in the coming months will be extremely valuable as the stock market beings to fall and the sentiment in undervalued sectors become more bullish.
A quarter of my portfolio is dedicated to physical precious metals. Precious metals, especially silver, are extremely undervalued, and at the very least maintain my purchasing power. I personally am only accumulating silver in the form of 1 oz coins and bullion:
Another 20 percent of my portfolio will be going into mining stocks and indexes. These shares will give my portfolio more exposure to the price of precious metals as well as some income from dividends. The indexes I will be buying into are GDX, and SIL. So far, the only gold mining stock I have started to accumulate is Yamana Gold (AUY). A silver mining stock I have my eye on is Hecla Mining (HL). I am currently waiting for HL to break out of its severe downtrend that it seems to be trapped in.
Here's the composition of the Mining portion of my portfolio:
I very much believe in the upside potential of precious metals and mining stocks. Take a look at the article I wrote, The Case for Precious Metals and Mining Stocks.
This part of my portfolio is not quite yet developed. I will be allocating capital to any undervalued stocks or commodity that present themselves.
Right now I have my eye on the uranium sector.
I don't know much about the uranium sector, so I am hesitant to jump right in.
From a technical standpoint, uranium futures are starting to trade in a horizontal manner. If they continue to trade this way, it may be an opportune time to start accumulating Uranium in the form of the ETF URA as well as picking up some related stocks.
I will continue to research this sector and write an article once I have developed more of an opinion on the sector as an investment.
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