Week 17 - Brief Honeymoon
April 28th, 2025. Weekly Review of the 🐿️'s BUSHY™ Multi Asset ETF Portfolio and live Acorn trade ideas. 2025, Week 17.
The BUSHY™ Portfolio - Week 17
Another solid week for the BUSHY™ portfolio, +1.67% on the week. The Vanguard ‘Target Date’ fund benchmark was very strong and is now back in positive territory for the year (but 2.24% behind BUSHY™).
BUSHY™ continues to trail the (very gold and T-Bill heavy) RPAR 0.00%↑ ETF on the multi-asset benchmark front but is well ahead of the rest of the pack. For new readers, please check out the original BUSHY™ portfolio explainer.
The fact that ‘Team YOLO’ (the 🐿️’s proxy for most ‘Robinhood’ retail portfolios) had one of its best weeks of the year spoke volumes to the 🐿️. This chart of inflows to levered/ inverse retail ETFs catches a similar vibe.
For all the breathless talk of ‘Zweig Breadth Thrusts’, this rodent is not a big believer in the current rally in risk assets. But y’all knew that already… Important to remember Marty Zweig’s other all-important trading rules: #1 (“The trend is your friend”), #7 (“Every indicator eventually bites the dust”) & my favorite (and thanks for the prompt, JJ
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