CArtuM on kaChing.com

Charting CArtuM index performance on my own was excellent experience, but it takes too much time. I started looking around for the web site which allows to chart my own Total portfolio (not single stock). It was quite a challenge. Mike Havrilla, expert on ETF development, referred his blog subscribers to kaChing.com and ... "kaChing is here to rock the investing world". The web site is current creation of the investment team, which includes world's greatest entrepreneur Marc Andreessen.

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kaChing.com allows to chart Portfolio Total in its comparison to S&P 500 or Russell 3000. So, I placed CArtuM index on kaChing.com and from now on CArtuM performance will be posted of the following web page.

Here we go:

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I will repost the CArtuM chart here time from time, but you are also welcome to follow the link.

Enjoy!

ArtuM

CArtum25 on Feb.14, 2009

For description see previous post.

Enjoy!

Art

CArtuM25 - educational CA based Index

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We know how tough traders work load is... Do you love taking risks? Are you ready to handle them? On the conversational level we all are, but "facing the lion in the pit" is eye opening experience. It requires high level of knowledge, quality planning, developed intuition and prime energies in the action. Your head is not the only instrument taking place in this real-time contest...

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I am excited to share with you my new development: researching and creating CA based Index. This path allows to converge knowledge from different areas and search for ways to market such indexes. With inspiration, guidance and assistance from author of ETF Innovators, I may securely move forward and dedicate myself to historical back-testing of the CArtum25, becoming proficient at its charting and comparing it with selected benchmark indexes. I started with DOW as the benchmark. Current research is more or less an educational one and few months it will stay this way. As things will progress and Index(es) will gain maturity, I will start exploring their marketing in the ETF realm. Meanwhile, stay with me on the exciting education of Index creation and their research.

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Here we have chart of CArtum25 and DOW, presented in relative % values. This charting format became standard in comparing few different charts and it will be used from now on. CArtuM25 consists of 25 CA based stocks and will be disclosed in future after my historical back-testing and related research.

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Initial idea for creating my own ETF came from allowing few country-based ETFs to compete on a one chart during daily trading sessions. It is an awesome and inspiring experience. Here is the sample of such run: http://wishswish.blogspot.com/2008/12/olympic-like-competition-based-on.html and here the chart only.

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Hope you like the idea and will come back for more. I am open for partnering with creative investment professionals, educators and sport minded people. My starting point in merging sports with investments is as follows:

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As basketball coach design the play and players deliver it, the same way investor operates in the investment world of options trading. It’s strategy. If the designed plan does not include enough protection, or adjustments, investor-player gets burned as we had in recent market collapse. But if investor-player has a game plan which places protective positions or goes with straddle strategy to play market volatility, then the player is covered. The same goes in sports. If the athlete-player design protective points and deliver them, than flow of the game is in control.

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Enjoy,

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Art

WishTheBest.com, Member of Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce,
Basketball coach of NBA sponsored Los Angeles Summer Pro League,

Programmer-Researcher of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 1977-1987