BTAL News and Press, AGFiQ U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund From 11/27/23

2023-11-27 01:15:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-11-09 09:30:00 ET Summary Relative performance of the hedge fund industry has dominated a majority of asset classes over the past 5 years, marking one of the strongest stretches in the history of the industry. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index has outperformed most liqui...

2023-03-22 12:49:00 ET Summary Valuations need to be reset from their lofty 2021 multiples, and the SVB collapse has merely accelerated the adjustment in valuations. Amid a flood of cheap money from the Federal Reserve (Fed), years of low interest rates and a pullback in corporate...

2023-03-11 06:34:07 ET Summary BTAL's main objective is to act as a hedge to stocks that can be valuable during times of market distress. While now may be a good time to own BTAL, the benefits of the ETF go beyond the potential success of a high-conviction trade. Sophisticated...

Summary Markets may be underestimating the stickiness of inflation and central banks’ determination to beat it - and what that means for growth and corporate earnings potential. We favor fixed income and credit over equities, and investment grade over high yield. Should infla...

Summary Energy prices are likely to underperform other commodities in coming months. Commodities generally have likely entered an extended period of depressed returns. A resumption in the decline of commodity prices, especially oil, suggest that we are entering a new, deflationary p...

Summary Warnings of a 20% decline in the S&P 500 underplay the risk facing markets today. Typical bear markets experience at least three 20% declines from peak levels that can extend out for a decade or longer. The best predictors of "secular" bear markets are high PE rati...

Summary Shorting equity markets generally has historically been a high-risk proposition, but the risk of significant and protracted downturns is currently very high. Four ETFs, SH, TAIL, DWSH, and BTAL are examined according to three criteria -- performance, risk, and exposure to ...

Producing market-beating returns per unit of risk is hard. The AGFiQ U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund may help an investor to achieve this goal. BTAL goes long low beta stocks like H&R Block and Dollar General and short high beta US equities like Square and Plug Power. ...

May was not the best month for alternative investment ETFs, at least as measured by the asset class’s largest portfolios. Less than a third of the funds produced price gains for the month. If one believes the past is a predictor of the future, one might be sorely tempted to all...