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Journal-ling the reaction when Dow Fell 800 Points
By Investment Moats  •  August 15, 2019

This is a follow up to the last post I did when the volatility of the markets picked up. Not to cause panic but I want to see how different ETF for different asset classes do.

800 points do look like a lot and for a market like this you realize there are not a lot of 3% moves.

The 20 year US Treasury Bond ETF always look good in times like this. Very uncorrelated and moving up 2%.

Gold Holdings ETFThe Gold Miner Stocks

Gold miner stocks is quite insulated. Since they are equities, you do not know how they are going to react when equity markets move down. The correlation relationship might not always be similar.

US Dollar ETF

Finally the USD ETF is performing better.

Japanese Yen ETF

The Japan yen is rather muted compared to the Aug 8 period.

Volatility ETF does it’s

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Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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