Friday May 28, 2010
Richard Rhodes' Rhodes Capital offers a number of newsletter options to help both institutional and individual investors make trading decisions.
The daily service consists of two reports: the Daily Bulletin and the ETF Playbook.
The Bulletin consists of overnight and other commentary we think relevant to our trading regimen; and our Paid-to-Play Long Only and Paid-to-Play Long/Short Portfolios with accompanying technical charts.
Also included is our StockWatch Waiting Area, which holds potential long and short positions we are considering for inclusion into the Paid-to-Play portfolios.
The Playbook covers a myriad of ETFs and their relative value charts compared to the S&P 500 Spyders ETF. Those ETFs included are the broad Asian, European, Latin American and Emerging Market countries; the S&P 500 Sectors and several individual Industry ETFs.
The reports are published daily between 8:00am and 8:30am EST.Rhodes Capital Management, Inc. is an investment trading management services group founded by Richard Rhodes in 2001.
The firm's active investment and trading regime uses a combination of macroeconomic analyses in the development of major themes, upon which rigorous quantitative and technically driven research is applied to create and manage its portfolios. These services are available to individuals, families, trusts and corporations.
We at Rhodes Capital have two very simple goals in terms of managing our client funds each year:
- To provide positive absolute performance gains year in and year out; and to outperform our S&P 500 benchmark each year.
- Do more of what is working for us; and less of what's not.
While these goals may seem simple in thought, they are difficult in practice; however, our daily personal attention to detail and hands on management style for each account provides us with the best opportunity to do so rather than the larger and more impersonal money management firms.
Quite obviously, 2008 was a dismal year for the US and world stock markets; however, there were few if any small measures of comfort:
- If your portfolio was hurt this year; you are not alone. Most money managers were destroyed this year; they simply did not see this coming.
- Don't beat yourself up; learn from your mistakes and losses, and take a more proactive roll in reassessing your money manager. Will your money manager perform in both up and down markets?
- The time to plan for portfolio downturns isn't in the middle of the downturn, but in advance.
