This is the chapter that I have to read really carefully because I am in the process of semi-professionalizing my own portfolio.
As it stands, everything is going fine with my 200% leveraged portfolio, I basically collected every single REIT that yields between 6%-8% that is not in my main portfolio and built a leveraged portfolio out of it. I have about 13 counter as of now (it would have been 14 has the Cromwell IPO not been cancelled). The portfolio size is expected to reach over $200k next week and it yields around $11,000 a year. That's not bad considering that I only pumped about $110k into this portfolio so far. The portfolio was also remarkably stable during the 7th month when all the other portfolios I have took a small dive.
The book confirmed that this is, in a limited extent, what some professional hedge fund managers do ......