Mid-week market update: We are entering the time of year when investors and traders position themselves for the end of the year. These conditions have made it more challenging for anyone trying to trade based on conventional technical analysis. The most obvious is tax loss selling, when investors harvest losses to offset their (likely)...
Preface: Explaining our market timing models We maintain several market timing models, each with differing time horizons. The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on the research outlined in our post, Building the ultimate market timing model. This model tends to generate only a handful of signals each decade. The Trend...
As 2024 draws to a close, it is becoming clear that the U.S. equities have led the way for most of the year. The accompanying chart shows the relative returns of equities by major region against the MSCI All-C ountry World Index (ACWI). The U.S. has been the only safe-haven of growth as the economies...
Mid-week market update: Jeffrey Hirsch of Almanac Trader recently indicated that the first part of December sees a period of seasonal weakness, followed by small cap leadership into year-end. I regard seasonality as informing me about the climate, while the weather can vary day-to-day. Here is my assessment of the weather ahead. ...
Preface: Explaining our market timing models We maintain several market timing models, each with differing time horizons. The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on the research outlined in our post, Building the ultimate market timing model. This model tends to generate only a handful of signals each decade. The Trend...
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