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...
Recent U.S. economic data has generally been weakening, as evidenced by the decline in the Citigroup Economic Surprise Index (ESI, gold line), which measures whether economic data is beating or missing expectations. As ESI has been roughly correlated to bond yields, this should put downward pressure on rates and expectations of rate cuts in the...
Mid-week market update: The S&P 500 followed the typical pattern of consolidating sideways for about a week after an upper Bollinger Band ride before breakout out to a fresh all-time high. As recent history shows, it's impossible to know which way stock prices will break after the consolidation. In many ways, the upside...
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...
The first half of 2024 was very good to U.S. equity investors. The S&P 500 was up 14.5% excluding dividends for that period. As stock market investors look forward to the second half, the first order of business will be the Q2 earnings reports, and there are a number of unanswered questions. The bulls...
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