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Muscular Portfolios UPDATE — Issue 26a — June 19, 2020
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NOTE: This is a short UPDATE to give you the latest news. You’ll receive your regular, full newsletter in the next few days.
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See seminars you may have missed
 By Brian Livingston
I seem to have become a wee bit more popular since an independent testing site showed that Muscular Portfolios beat the S&P 500 in the complete bear-bull market cycle that began in October 2007 and ended in February 2020. (This confirmation was announced in the April 2020 newsletter.)
Last month, I was invited to lead three seminars revealing how you can achieve the same results yourself. Now, you can see any of the seminars you missed.
Particularly frustrating to me was the 90-minute overview of Muscular Portfolios that was sponsored by the AAII Portland Chapter on May 16. The national AAII organization limited the chapter’s online attendance to only 250 people. Hundreds of investors who tried to preregister received an email saying they couldn’t participate, but could only listen in by phone (not toll-free).
My sincere apologies to everyone who was unable to see that event live. Fortunately, you can use the links below to catch up.
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Overview sponsored by AAII Portland, May 16
 This session starts from the beginning. It walks the viewer through the failings of Lazy Portfolios, leading into the scientific basis for Muscular Portfolios. The discussion focuses on the behavioral tricks our minds play on us that greatly harm our investing performance. The latest demonstrations of the 2007–2020 performance by independent testing website ETFScreen.com are also discussed. The edited tape is a little more than 1½ hours long, but you can fast-forward.
To see the seminar on AAII Portland’s YouTube page:
Use this link or enter bri.li/200619c into any browser.
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Advanced seminar for AAII Puget Sound, May 12
 This session assumes that you already have some knowledge of Muscular Portfolios and how they work. We see how and why Muscular Portfolios outperformed the S&P 500 during 2020’s coronavirus crash, in addition to beating the benchmark during the longer-term 2007–2009 bear-bull market cycle. The audience's questions roam into other topics, as well. The edited tape is 1½ hours long, but you can fast-forward.
To see the seminar on AAII Puget Sound's YouTube page:
Use this link or enter bri.li/200619e.
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Unscripted interview about fintech on Tech Tuesday
 The program’s hosts — author Harry Brelsford and Northwest Digital News producer Kevin Hunter — drill down into Muscular Portfolios and the new science of financial technology (fintech). This 28-minute program, first released on May 19, includes explanations and graphs of the latest performance during the coronavirus crash and the longer 2007–2020 bear-bull market cycle.
To see the show:
Use this link or enter bri.li/200619g.
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Unbelievable 50%-off coupon still works
 The 50-percent-off sale that I announced in the May 13 newsletter is still available through the website of the publisher, BenBella Books. It is not available directly through Amazon.com.
To get this limited-time 50% discount, you must first put the book or the ebook in your shopping cart. On the checkout page, you then enter coupon code MP50 to get the hardcover book for half off or MP799 to get the ebook for $7.99.
To get these discounts:
Use this link to the publisher's order page or enter bri.li/200619i.
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About the author: Brian Livingston is a successful dot-com entrepreneur, an award-winning business journalist, a contributor to MarketWatch and StockCharts, and the author of Muscular Portfolios (2018, BenBella Books). He is also the co-author of 11 books in the Windows Secrets series, (1991–2007, John Wiley & Sons), with over 2.5 million copies sold. From 1986 to 1991, he worked in New York City as the assistant IT manager of UBS Securities; as a consultant for Morgan Guaranty Trust (now JPMorgan Chase); and as technology adviser for Lazard Ltd. He was the weekly Windows columnist for InfoWorld magazine from 1991 to 2003. During portions of that period, he was also a contributing editor of CNET, PC World, eWeek, PC/Computing, Datamation, and Windows magazine. In 2003, he founded the Windows Secrets Newsletter, which grew from zero to 400,000 email subscribers. He served as its editorial director until he sold the business in 2010. He is president emeritus of the Seattle regional chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). Stipple illustration by The Wall Street Journal.