There are sectors of the financial world that are currently wildly speculative and cause me concern. In my recent post on gold's advance in 2025, I expressed my thoughts on the factors contributing to the 60% rally. https://www.mortonir.com/post/gold-euphoria-speculation-or-a-store-of-value My concerns go further... Stablecoins (like Tether) also have significant elements of speculation. Tether is designed to track the U.S. dollar, but as a crypto token. Rather than living w

The intention of LEAF is to go down less in equity market corrections, and then rebound when markets rally.

More recently gold appears to be a "risk on" asset. Stock markets doing well... the logic appears to be buy gold. Crypto hitting new highs (so called digital gold), add gold as a side bet.

Leveraged ETF Allocation Formula October Update We continue to be pleased with the real time performance of the model. In October LEAF captured 62% of the NASDAQ's upside while experiencing less than half of the downside (during market corrections). October Performance QQQ was +4.8%  LEAF was +3.0% QQQ had two significant drawdowns in October Oct 10 QQQ -3.6% LEAF -1.8% Oct 30 QQQ -1.5% LEAF -0.6%   Trade Summary (CTA) Managed Futures was added to on Oct 1 and 27. All trades