Scarecrow Advisors, LLC

Scarecrow Advisors is a small team of four advisors managing approximately $74 million for roughly 247 clients, and it provides ongoing portfolio management and investment supervisory services to individual and institutional clients. The firm constructs individualized investment policy statements and typically operates with discretionary authority to implement and monitor client portfolios, with account minimums applied at the firm’s discretion.

The firm relies on a mix of fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis and maintains its own proprietary models while also selecting third‑party managers when appropriate; it uses both strategic long‑term allocations and tactical shifts. Scarecrow’s stated strategies can include short‑term trading and more advanced instruments—inverse and leveraged funds, short sales, margin and covered options—which the brochure identifies and describes along with associated risks.

Scarecrow discloses affiliations with separate entities that provide trading signals to other registered advisers and notes shared personnel between those affiliates and the advisory firm, a relationship it identifies as a potential conflict and says it mitigates through disclosure and operational limits. The combination of a small team running proprietary models, active use of leveraged/short strategies, and an affiliated signal‑provider business (with principals reporting roughly four and twenty weekly market hours devoted to those activities) distinguishes the firm from many peers.