{"id":12209,"date":"2011-02-25T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:21:10","slug":"the-winning-investor-podcast-how-to-diversify-your-portfolio-with-commodity-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/the-winning-investor-podcast-how-to-diversify-your-portfolio-with-commodity-etfs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winning Investor Podcast &#8211; How to Diversify Your Portfolio with Commodity ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8416 alignleft\" title=\"winninginvestor\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/winninginvestor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"244\" \/>In our last episode, we talked about how the easiest way to gain portfolio diversification was by using two major exchange traded funds. \u00a0 To recap, you&#8217;ve probably heard that you should have a mix of stocks and bonds in your portfolio\u201d\u201done ratio that gets thrown around a lot is 60\/40, which means 60% of the portfolio should be stocks and 40% should be bonds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To make the portfolio more aggressive, you\u2018d increase the percentage of stocks to 70% and decrease the bond portion to 30%. \u00a0 And of course to slide more conservatively or defensively in a bad economic environment, you\u2018d lower the percentage of stocks and raise the percentage of bonds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More on <a href=\"http:\/\/winninginvestor.quickanddirtytips.com\/\"><strong>The Winning Investor Podcast<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; 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