Chicken Little Portfolio Performance July 2016

In July 2016, the Chicken Little Portfolio gained 0.59% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.90%.

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July 2016 performance

	July 2016	2016 YTD	Since Inception (3/31/2016)
Chicken Little	0.59%	6.84%	4.18%
Dow Jones Industrials	2.90%	7.15%	6.86%

Chicken Little earned 0.59% in July, benefitting from the increase in price of long-term US Treasury bonds. Investing in July was like shooting fish in a barrel because every asset class went up in price. The only way to fail to make money in July was to short anything or to sit in cash.  

Asset	Symbol	July 2016	YTD 2016
Dow Jones Industrials	DIA	2.90%	7.15%
Non-US Stocks	EFA	3.96%	0.81%
Emerging Market Stocks	EEM	5.44%	13.38%
US Long-Term Treasury Bonds	TLT	2.10%	18.68%
Gold	GLD	1.94%	27.12%

August 2016 portfolio positions

As of August 1, 2016 the Chicken Little Portfolio remains ready for a global, deflationary depression. Chicken Little is heavily invested in US Treasuries and cash. 

There is one big change, at least psychologically, in the Chicken Little Portfolio. Chicken Little is now long stocks, for the first time in years. Chicken Little remains pessimistic to an historic degree, but Chicken Little does not fight the market (see post: Chicken Little Buys). The impact is currently just psychological as the stock position is so minuscule that there can be no significant financial impact. 

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