Black Monday Oct 19 1987: stock markets crashed around the world. The front page of The New York Times captured the drama.

The Dow dropped by 508 points that day, to 1738.74 (- 22.6 %). This was in sharp contrast to the hefty 44 % gain the previous seven months. Trading without a hedge or general rules to shield you from such rapid falls is hazardous, and will wipe out any leveraged long portfolio in less than a day.

The management of Venninvest AS has developed a risk-control framework allowing us to access a globally accepted equity-indices while limiting the exposure with a set of hedging- and trading rules. The risk control features

1. a globally accepted, independent indices like the FTSE100 
2. transparent methodology based on the index's historical volatility (indexology) over the last 30 years
3. ability to control risk, measured by volatility, to a predefined level
4. hedging by contract options
5. set of general trading rules that base investments strictly on statistical probabilities to remove human behavior biases