The Weekly ROAR: the rest of 2026 will be good, bad or ugly, based on these 3 things.
And, why 97% of ETFs are of little use to most investors
THANK YOU.
Our transition to a consolidated service that teaches you to be your own portfolio manager is now complete. I guess April showers really do bring May flowers!
They did for this community, as you now have one packaged service to hear directly from me, chat with me and use my 40 years of professional investing however you wish. So you can be the Y in “DIY Investor.”
That’s a good time to remind all subscribers (even if you are simply touring as a free member)…we provide a ton of free learning material at ETFYourself.com.
“Evergreen” articles that focus not on “what to buy now” but on “how to think like a serious investor.” That includes topics such as:
Putting defense first, to achieve better long-term returns
Why tactical investing is no longer a choice for successful investing. Buy and hold has gone and went.
Holding cash (via ETFs) is not a sign of weakness. It is what savvy investors do when markets lack direction and/or any sense of stability (like now).
How to use charting (technical analysis) as a risk-management weapon. Most writing about ETF and stock charting is geared to traders. We go beyond that.
How to truly understand what ETFs are, and are not. So you can use them well.
How to create a portfolio that works for you, not a “collection of investments.”
How to figure out who you are as an investor. Then manage your assets to it.
That’s all part of the free material here. Soak it in.
And, if you have not yet joined us as a paid subscriber, we’ve consolidated our offering:
$150/year gets you all of the writing behind the paywall as they say (ETFYourself.com)
$600/year gets you ETFYourself.com AND full access to ROAR.PiTrade.com, where you can build your own portfolios, or “copy off of my paper in class” by simply following one the models I created and use myself. They range from simple-but-effective 2-ETF portfolios to ROAR 10 ETF, the most popular member of the squad, since it is the closest to what I did professionally during my advisory and fund management career.
Note that this combined service will be priced at $600 for another 26 days. After May 31, the price will adjust to $1,000 a year.
Why are we worth it?
We take risk management more seriously than “set it and forget it” approaches to ETF portfolios. Preventing major losses along the way to long-term success requires the willingness to be as proactive as necessary, when necessary.
How do our portfolios do this?
By combining ETFs in our specific way, we avoid the “silent killer” of portfolio management: redundancy from owning dozens of ETFs or hundreds of stocks that represent too small a part of the portfolio to matter significantly. The goal is not to build a “collection of securities.” It is to build a portfolio that works like a machine, manages risk, and grows over time.
ROAR.PiTrade.com: automated, discliplined, research-driven investment portfolios at your fingertips, for you to:
Use them as a research core from which to build your own portfolios
Follow them and trade them yourself
Have them traded for you (free using the PiTrade.com app)
Now, let’s talk about these markets, as the DIY portfolio managers we are.