The headline “The Small Steps of Giant Leaps” is “stolen” from a blog post published on Farnham Street. What is Farnham Street? There is no coincidence that the webpage is called Farnham Street. Shane Parrish, the founder of Farnham Street, simply used the address of his favourite company: Berkshire Hathaway, 3555 Farnam Street. Parrish is…
Larry Connors is a well-known figure in the world of trading and finance, and he has developed several trading strategies over the years. Larry Connors is a well-known figure in the world of trading and finance. He is an author, trader, and co-founder of TradingMarkets.com, which is a popular website that provides trading education and…
Today we will look at another trend following strategy developed by a famous fund manager long ago. It’s called Fabian Timing Model and was developed by Richard Fabian in the 1960s. The Fabian timing model is a simple quantitative long-term trend following strategy for the stock market. It is based on an intermarket signal between the…
What trading hour is the best? Does the time of day make a difference when trading? When should you buy and sell during the trading day? We test: Gold, Oil, Silver, SP500, and Swiss Franc Seasonal trading strategies can take many forms in any time frame. This article looks at intraday data for some of…
A few months back we published an article about seasonality in the retail sector: Our article was based on research done by Jay Kaeppel. Mr. Kaeppel did a follow up some few months later, but this time he included two slightly different retail funds by fidelity: The biggest holdings of FDFAX are these: The biggest…
Did you know that we also have a Twitter account where we publish unique trading strategies and ideas? Below you can find examples of some of our strategies and ideas not published anywhere else:
The Gibson Talmud Portfolio by Roger Gibson aims to diversify investments across US stocks, REITs and bonds. The Gibson Talmud Portfolio strategy can be implemented with only 3 ETFs, of which 33.34% are US stocks, 33.33% are US REITs and 33.33% are mid-term treasury bonds. You do not need to pick individual stocks and bonds….
One of the most known factors in investing is momentum. Momentum states that an asset that has been going up is more likely to keep going up in the future than to fall. It has been widely researched by academia and proven by multiple studies that it works. However, in the short term, the story…
Most retail investors focus on companies’ fundamentals or valuations when deciding where to invest. But another important aspect to consider is in what context these companies operate: Is the economy growing or in a recession? What is the unemployment rate? Is inflation high? This is where macroeconomics enter. Macroeconomic trading is one of the most…
Mean reversion has worked very well on most Western stock indices for about four decades since the advent of futures trading. It has worked even better during the bull market after the financial crisis in 2008/09. Perhaps counterintuitive, long strategies have worked better in bear than bull markets. Please read our anatomy of a bear…
