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There is generally no point in doing this, keep a constant asset allocation that match your risk appetite, otherwise you're just playing the casino.

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Timing the market is bad, but I'm reading "risk averse" as selling equities and buying bonds.

The problem is that this recent equities run has been extra terrible for more conservative 60/40 portfolios [0].

[0] https://www.morningstar.com/economy/6040-portfolio-150-year-...

> selling equities and buying bonds

There's an intermediate option: sell high P/E stocks and buy lower P/E stocks with dividend paying history. There are ETFs designed for this purpose too.

That is also what I read in going risk averse.

In particular bulking up in EM, EU, and small cap. And slimming down in us large cap.

Uhhh...you're describing something like QAI? [0] And you're going to short a portfolio of TSLA, NVDA, AMZN, META, GOOGL, MSFT, AAPL, NFLX, AMD...?

That's crazy.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QAI/

I am indeed short TSLA (or rather, am taking an inverse position), and have greatly reduced my exposure to NVDA, AMZN, META, MSFT, and AAPL. I keep some exposure to GOOGL, NFLX, AMD, because I believe they are going to "win" in their industry in the long run. I plan to keep exposure to them for like 10+ years.

I have a blog post about the inverse TSLA position here: https://bagelpour.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/taking-an-inverse...

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