• Portfolio Management for March 19, 2014

    Yesterday, I entered two short trades (URBN/DECK) and one long (FEYE).
    The portfolio is slightly short for today's FOMC announcement.
    The 5D statistical risk on the portfolio is -0.38%, while the 5D max drawdown is -1.8% (if all stops are hit, which is very unlikely.) This is an acceptable risk position.





    Here is the list of potential trades for today.



    CACI and VTR look rather compelling. Timing the entry will be key. My intention is to open a new long position before the FOMC announcement in order to have the portfolio in full neutral at the time of the announcement. I subsequently will remove all hard stops so that I will not be taken out of these positions by a volatile market reaction.

    The strategy will be to keep the winning positions, whatever the market decides after the FOMC release.