Category: Risk Analysis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, May 01, 2020
How To Reduce Trading Risks When Using CFDs / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Submissions
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Saturday, February 24, 2018
Reintroducing The Concept Of Stock Market Investing Risk / Companies / Risk Analysis
By: WMA
It has been a while. Aside from a bit of turbulence at the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, those investors turning a blind eye to financial market risk enjoyed a winning strategy since 2011. Equity market volatility had been particularly subdued from the U.S. election in November 2016 until this month. We knew that this extreme complacency had to end…it just lasted longer than any rational analyst could have predicted.
It almost seems perverse to write a Commentary on the importance of managing risk in this great economic expansion with strong company profits – aided by the Republican tax cuts. Investors who just buy companies whose share prices are setting all-time record highs pass as financial geniuses. However the earnings outlook, in our opinion, has gotten a bit too rosy. Wall Street optimism has markets priced for perfection, and with many market-leading stocks trading at levels inconsistent with past earnings cycles. And more experienced investors should know that bull markets do not die on pessimism. Our challenge is to convince our readers and investors that investing in a portfolio of blue-chip stocks today is not a sufficient risk management strategy.
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Dangerous Nonsense: Trading the Equity Curve and Market Timing / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Submissions
Anthony Garner writes:
Using a simple system it is said to be possible to achieve a better risk adjusted return than would be achieved by buy and hold. Maximum drawdown may be less severe and standard deviation may be lower.
Much is made by the retail investment community (and indeed others who should know better) of the advantages of algorithmic market timing based on limited testing over limited timeframes and over an even more limited number of instruments.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Tail Risk - Investors Suffering Permanent Loss / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Fred_Sheehan
In a recent memo to Oaktree Capital clients, Chairman Howard Marks writes about "the time I spent advising a sovereign wealth fund about how to organize for the next thirty years. My presentation was built significantly around my conviction that risk can't be quantified a priori. Another of their advisors, a professor from a business school north of New York, insisted it can. This is something I prefer not to debate, especially with people who're sure they have the answer but haven't bet much money on it."
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Responding to Financial Crisis Risk With intelligent Analytics / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Submissions
Joe Budden writes: Following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, many veteran traders were faced with a totally different financial landscape in which to operate. The ‘New Normal’, a term first coined by Pimco trader, Mohammed El-Erian, became the finance community’s go-to word for a new world order which bore more similarities with the post Depression era than anything investors had previously experienced.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
The Role of Risk in Portfolio Investment Asset Allocation / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: John_Mauldin
Diversification of your investments is the only real free lunch, or so we are told. But how do we go about deciding what to diversify into? In this week’s short Outside the Box, my friend Jason Hsu of Research Affiliates argues that the real basis for diversification should be risk. And given that risk seems to be rising everywhere we look, thinking about how to deal with risk in our portfolios makes a great deal of sense.
I’m also including in today’s OTB a complementary piece by good friend Charles Gave of GaveKal. This is a short piece that is long on common sense and that winds up with a straightforward list of places where we can invest to minimize risk.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
How to build an Optimal Investment Portfolio with Markowatz's Portfolio Theory? / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
There have been many changes in today’s stock market trading landscape which is dominated by computers and ECN networks as compared to the ‘open outcry’ system that existed until the early 1980s. During those days markets are relatively inefficient in a way that price change does not reflect the change in the news and events. Those who can get hold of technologies will have the upper hand in trading the markets because they will receive the news much sooner than the rest of us. Those who possess telex, fax and computers will certainly have an advantage not only in receiving the news but also in executing the buy and sell orders.
Monday, April 23, 2012
General Thoughts About Luck / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
As someone who plays poker regularly, I'd like to think that I have a good understanding of why luck is important in our lives. It's NOT because the world is completely random and we have no influence over what outcomes will materialize for us - actually, it is the very fact that we do make meaningful decisions in the face of uncertainty that generates luck. Let me try to explain what I mean with an analogy to the game of poker.
Poker is a game of skill, which means those players with superior skills (patience, discipline, memory, critical/logical thinking, mathematical analysis) have a long-term edge over the less skillful among them. It is a very simple game with simple rules governing what each player can do (fold, call, bet, raise), what order they can do it in, how much they can bet at any given time, which hands rank higher than others, etc.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Investor Parachutes vs. Pillows: Why Diversification Doesn't Work / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: EWI
Prechter and Kendall's "All the Same Market" Analysis Shows how Diversification Can't Protect You from Correlated Risk
A dear friend of mine wants to celebrate an important health milestone by going skydiving with friends. She feels happy and healthy and excited. She wants to do something very thrilling to celebrate.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
This Simple Step Could Save Your Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Jared_Levy
Just about every stockbroker, financial advisor or money manager worth their weight in salt knows that diversification is a major way to us to manage investment risk.
But here's what most -- professionals and retail investors alike fail to remember: Diversification doesn't just mean choosing to invest in different companies that do different things and that's it. Creating real diversity and ultimately protecting your investment portfolio involves a little more work, which amazingly, most professionals still get wrong.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
The Four Portfolio Investment Risks You Can’t Avoid / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: We’re making money hand over fist – locking in significant double- and triple-digit gains – in our Oxford Trading Portfolio, Seven Deadly Sins Portfolio, Oxford All-Star Portfolio, Momentum Portfolio, Insider Portfolio and our New Frontier Portfolio.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Currency Exchange Rates Can Hurt Your Stocks Investment Portfolios / Currencies / Risk Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
You may be facing immense foreign-currency risks in your investment portfolio - and not even realize it. If that's the case, don't feel bad: You're not alone.
The reality is that most American investors have no idea that currency exchange rates directly affect U.S. corporate earnings, this country's stock market, or the growth rate of our economy.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
A Value Investors View of Portfolio Risk vs. Diversification / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Hans_Wagner
Diversification is the one of the ways to reduce risk, or so we learned. While a properly diversified portfolio might reduce your risk of loss, it also lowers the chance you have to achieve market-beating returns.
If you are a value investor, you find that your approach already reduces your risk of loss without having to resort to various diversification schemes.
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Sunday, August 01, 2010
How to Cut the Risk in Your Stocks Portfolio / / Risk Analysis
By: Bryan_Rich
I normally talk only about currencies in my Money and Markets columns. But today I want to make an exception and address some commonly held misconceptions many investors have about their investments.
For the typical individual investor it’s easy to get caught up in the 24-hour a day media hype of the stock market. So it’s no surprise that many live and die with the direction of the market. They’ve bought hook-line-and-sinker into the notion that blindly plowing money into stocks is the only way to grow their wealth.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Risk, The Essence Of Investing / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Steve_Selengut
Most investors incorrectly think of "risk" as the possibility that the market value of a financial asset might fall below the amount that he or she has invested in the asset. OMG, how could this be happening!
Think about it. The harboring of these misconceptions (that lower market price = loss or bad and/or that higher market price = profit or good) is the greatest risk creator of all. It invariably causes inappropriate actions within the large mass of individuals who are uninitiated in the ways of the investment gods.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Investors 2010 Risk Reward Focus, Calm Seas, Blood in the Water / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Bob_Clark
The picture below is a little cheesy but I think it depicts the way many investors feel right now as they sit isolated, feeling trapped and abandoned. They may have listened to the fear mongers and pulled their pensions or are thinking about it, maybe they fired their advisor and are cuddled up with their cash wondering what to do next.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
What Can Tell You if Stock Market Risk Levels Are Increasing? / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Marty_Chenard
Imagine this ... John is hiking up a 5 mile mountain. After each mile hiked, he notices that he is tiring and that he needs more time to rest.
He just finished his third mile, and he is starting the next mile with less energy ... but he still has energy left. The reality is that with each additional mile hiked, his energy is lessening.
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Sunday, August 09, 2009
Aussie Dollar Signaling Financial Markets Risk Appetite Is Vulnerable to Reversal / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Money_and_Markets
Bryan Rich writes: According to the financial markets, the world has become a very calm and comfortable place again. But has it?
Just a year ago markets were crashing all around us …
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Investment Portfolio Risk Matching Strategy / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Richard_Shaw
Whether we are coaching you as you manage your assets, or whether we are managing assets for you, if your investment account is mature, we follow this general approach — appropriately tweaked to your specific process preferences and needs.
A mature account is one for which expected new money additions are minimal compared to the size of the accumulated assets — where replacement of lost assets is not a practical or feasible option.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Risk Management and Portfolio Optimization / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Peter_Johansson
Stock analysis based on technical analysis or fundamental analysis is getting a lot of attention and often form the the basis for investment decisions. Many private investors combine perhaps 5-10 assets into a portfolio and let their intuition guide the allocate between the assets. How this allocation could be done in an optimal way, analytically, receives little attention in financial newspapers and marketing from financial institutes although it has a great significance for expected returns and portfolio risk.Read full article... Read full article...