An article of mine published by Seeking Alpha over the weekend (“Hedging Against Gold Losing Its Haven Status“) attracted a heckler.
That article quoted both a bullish case and a bearish case for gold, originally presented in an FT article Saturday. One gold bug, angry that I included a case against gold in my article, [...]

We tweeted this before Bernanke’s testimony Tuesday:
Cheap to hedge $GLD against a greater than 20% drop between now & September – 0.8%. Longs should consider it. twitter.com/PortfolioArmor…
— Portfolio Armor (@PortfolioArmor) February 29, 2012

Hedging costs had jumped 46% for GLD by the end of the day, as we noted in this Seeking Alpha article. [...]

In a previous post, we noted that we’d seen several examples of high optimal hedging costs presaging poor performance in a stock. This is the most recent example.
Last week, we noted the high optimal hedging cost for Zynga could be a warning:
Steep hedging cost for $ZNGA (compare to last tweet re $QQQ). A [...]

Micro blogging is quicker than regular blogging, but tweets are also more ephemeral: it’s pretty common for someone to read a blog post you wrote a day or a week ago, but not so common for someone to read something you tweeted an hour ago. With that in mind, I’m going to start picking 10 [...]

Hedging a High Yield Long Idea
In a post Wednesday morning (“High-Yield Long Idea Idea Continues Strong”), Tim Knight noted the continued strong performance of his long position in the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF JNK. Back in August, I looked at the cost of hedging JNK, but I thought [...]

Seeking Alpha published an article of mine touching on this earlier this week, but the tweet below and the chart that follows it illustrate the tl; dr version. Portfolio Armor was designed to help investors hedge, but other uses for it have emerged. One is as a warning flag for investors in securities with high [...]

In a post this fall (“New Features and Things to Come”), I mentioned a few projects that were in the works for Portfolio Armor:
Things to come
A quant on the Portfolio Armor team, a post doctoral fellow at Princeton University, is conducting R&D on the first two features below now. I hope to have [...]