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Our Take on “The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns”

Readers have asked for our take on “the single greatest predictor of future stock market returns”, aka the Aggregate Investor Allocation to Equities. This indicator was first shared by Philosophical Economics back in 2013, and recently resurrected by Portfolio Optimizer (two excellent sites you should be following). A very brief primer: The Aggregate Investor Allocation […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, TAA Strategies

A Key New Momentum Measure to Consider: Distance from 1-Year High

This research was inspired by Alpha Architect’s coverage of a new paper looking at how the distance from a stock’s 1-year high has affected the performance of momentum strategies and the likelihood of “momentum crashes”. We look at the same question applied to a stock index: the S&P 500. We show that how far the […]

Filed Under: TAA Analysis, TAA Strategies

Mark Virag’s “Momentum Based Balancing”: Relative Momentum Taken to the Extreme

This a test of Mark Virag’s paper “Momentum Based Balancing for the Diversified Portfolio” (NAAIM Wagner Award winner, 2014). This is a relative momentum strategy that provides an interesting contrast to a popular strategy we track: FinancialMentor.com’s Optimum 3. More on this later. Backtested results from 1973 follow. Results are net of transaction costs – […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

Vintage Economic Data: Part of Our Perpetual Drive to Better Results

Some of the strategies we track use economic data, like the unemployment rate, when making investment decisions. Like 99.99% of strategy backtests you’ll encounter, we’ve always taken the shortcut of basing our historical results on that economic data as it looks today. The problem is that introduces a degree of “lookahead bias”. Economic data is […]

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Hybrid Asset Allocation

This is a test of the latest tactical asset allocation strategy from Dr. Wouter Keller and JW Keuning and their paper: Dual and Canary Momentum with Rising Yields/Inflation: Hybrid Asset Allocation (HAA). Backtested results from 1971 follow. Results are net of transaction costs – see backtest assumptions. Learn about what we do and follow 70+ […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

Zakamulin’s Optimal Trend Following

This is a test of a novel trend-following strategy from the paper Optimal Trend Following Rules in Two-State Regime-Switching Models by Valeriy Zakamulin and Javier Giner. These results aren’t as eye catching as many we track, but the paper contributes some important ideas to the study of tactical asset allocation. Results trading the S&P 500 from […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

A Note About Commodities and How We Represent Them on Our Platform

We represent each asset class on our platform using the largest, most liquid ETF available (read why). Currently, we represent the asset class “diversified commodities” with the Invesco ETF DBC, but after this weekend, we’ll be changing to a different Invesco ETF PDBC. There are two reasons for this change: For non-US investors, there are […]

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The Best Defensive Asset Class

In this post we look at what major asset classes have proven to be the best defensive choice in months when the market has fallen over the last 50+ years. We’ll look at multiple government and corporate bond assets, diversified commodities, gold and the US dollar. The results? As expected, a mixed bag. Investors who […]

Filed Under: TAA Analysis

Cross-Asset Signals and Time Series Momentum

This is a test of concepts from the paper Cross-Asset Signals and Time Series Momentum. Standard “time series” momentum is a well-documented feature of financial markets. Assets going up tend to continue going up. In this paper, the authors show that stocks and treasuries can also be used to time each other. This is “cross-asset” […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

Bold Asset Allocation

This is a test of Dr. Wouter Keller’s tactical strategy “Bold Asset Allocation” (BAA) from his paper Relative and Absolute Momentum in Times of Rising/Low Yields. Backtested results from 1970 follow. Results are net of transaction costs – see backtest assumptions. Learn about what we do and follow 60+ asset allocation strategies like this one […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

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  • Our Take on “The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns” May 28, 2023
  • A Key New Momentum Measure to Consider: Distance from 1-Year High May 21, 2023
  • Mark Virag’s “Momentum Based Balancing”: Relative Momentum Taken to the Extreme May 16, 2023

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