I’m entering a contest to see how I do in terms of beating the market over the coming months and years (more details coming soon), and as a part of it, I had to write down my strategy.  This is easier said than done and is something I had never done before.  Articulating and writing down on paper your actual strategy is probably a good exercise for anyone who does their own trading/investing.  Here’s what I came up with:

To invest based on long-term macro economic perspectives, maintaining a portfolio of positions that should outperform based on multi-year economic trends with an emphasis on dividends, hedging volatility with various short-term trades and not being opposed to significant levels of cash.