A good week on the index but most of our portfolios lagged as the recovery came mainly in beaten down sectors like Banking financials autos and metals and our portfolios are laced with speciality chem and pharma mostly. Minor gains on them and STAIRS improved on its drawdown this week with a good 1400 … Continue reading Weekly Performance Update May 29 2020

A good week that saw both long only and long short strategies gain ground despite the weakening seen in benchmark indices. The deployment in most strategies is gradually gaining with Telecom, Pharma, Life Sciences and Speciality Chemical picks being predominant. The momentum strategies always remain with the sectors that have strength and that is how … Continue reading Weekly Performance Report 22 May 2020

Hello, Here is more rigorous data that we have crunched on the performance on this most loved strategy MI_ST_ATH of weekendinvesting.com on the smallcase platform. Data comparison updated to May 15 2020 Some earlier data points including rolling returns over 20 years was here Weekendinvesting.smallcase.com

A sort of nothing week with a intra week bounce due to the stimulus announcement and back to square one by the end of it. Long portfolios were largely unmoved while the long short trading hedge trends were disturbed and results in whiplash trades. A dull week best forgotten asap! Have a good weekend !

End of a tough week that started with huge gap down and then just kind of stalled there. The long only portfolios some how did not lose anything much while the long and short strategy STAIRS lost some ground and went on to grind lower. Good Bad or Ugly, these were the goods this week. … Continue reading Weekly Performance Report 08 May 2020

Pfizer has issued Special dividend at Rs 320 per share. We are holding Pfizer in many portfolios. The dividend will be added to the cash portion in the model portfolio.

The markets kept in the up-mode all through the week and most of our long only strategies sitting in high cash kept sitting on the sidelines. The STAIRS strategy picked good gains on the longs this week and the smallcases were mostly stagnant. The market is quite volatile and over the month of May we … Continue reading Weekly Performance Update 1 May 2020