The price of success

Last year, my Valentine's Day post was about how Facebook analyzed the behavior of who fall in love (see Falling in love, the Facebook version). This year, I thought that I would highlight the price of success for hedge fund managers. I highlight a research paper entitled Limited Attention, Marital Events, and Hedge Funds. Here...

Bracing for more pain

In theory, stock prices should be poised to rally. The SPX is testing a key support zone dating back to October 2014 and it is experiencing positive divergences on the 5 and 14 day RSI. If it did bottom here, the initial target would be the first Fibonacci retracement level at about 1935, with further...

Waiting for the market to heal

Model signal summary Ultimate market timing model: Buy equities Trend Model signal: Risk-off Trading model: Bearish (downgrade) The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on research outlined in our post Building the ultimate market timing model. The Trend Model is an asset allocation model which applies trend following principles based...