The tendency of recent market performance to persist, an effect known as momentum, has been pervasive even though it is a “blatant violation” of what you would expect in an…
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Cyclicals in the Lead
…benefit from an uptick in tech spending. A strong cash position and positive relative strength trend make this stock a strong momentum play. Hooker Furniture (HOFT) is a home furnishing…
ETF Due Diligence: What to Look For
…There’s been a huge push to sell investors “smart beta” ETFs (managed based on factors such as value, volatility, momentum, etc.). While not necessarily bad, these funds are not “magic…
Market Timing Indicator Kicks off Rare Buy Signal
…Edwin Coppock was a technical analyst who proposed his market-timing model in an article for Barron’s in 1962. Hulbert explains it as a “momentum indicator that filters out shorter-term market…
Momentum Investing is Back, At Least for Now
…article in Investment News. The article cites a recent white paper by AQR that addressed momentum investment results and reported that “trend-following has delivered strong positive returns and realized a…
Blending Strategies to Reduce Volatility and Boost Results
…Momentum Investor portfolio has returned 192.2% and our Value Investor portfolio has returned 238.3% (outperforming the market during that time by 78.2% and 199.9%, respectively). Using these two strategies, the…
"Quantimental" Fund Management Raises Eyebrows
…factors such as value, momentum and volatility) into the management of funds that have been primarily fundamentally driven (focused on more traditional metrics related to earnings, profitability, debt levels and…
Augmented Reality Craze and Stock Picks
…gets a thumb’s up under our John Neff-based methodology. Facebook Inc. (FB), the social media giant, gets high marks under Validea’s Momentum Investor model given its exemplary quarterly EPS growth…
In Factor Investing, Integration is a Plus
…factors (eg. building one portfolio for value and a second for momentum and then combining the two), better results can be obtained through an “integrated” approach whereby investors would build…
Some Tasty Stock Picks in Organic Foods
…markets snack food and beverage products for consumers in approximately 165 countries around the world. Under Validea’s Momentum stock screen, MDLZ well exceeds both quarterly EPS and annual earnings growth…