July 2018

Dave Canal
July 17, 2018

The active manager cannot control his own destiny in times of high market correlation, but when correlation is a normal 26% - or lower - he can “hammer” the market.  Correlation is the degree that different securities move together in tandem.  The norm of 26% goes back close to a hundred years.  Sudden increases in correlation are always...

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Learn how to take losses quickly and cleanly. Don’t expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.

– Bernard Baruch