Finding the Market’s Top-Performers
Finding the Market’s Top-Performers

Although one-day share price movements get a lot of attention, there is a “better measure of price strength that investors should be paying attention to—price momentum over time.” This according…

The Changing Nature of Momentum
The Changing Nature of Momentum

By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Investors sometimes want to pigeonhole investing factors. We want to look at a factor and associate a certain type of company with it. Doing so…

Momentum Strategy and How to Temper It
Momentum Strategy and How to Temper It

While the coronavirus  pandemic “rocked” global markets in the first quarter of 2020, a recent Morningstar article reports that momentum exchange-traded funds navigated fairly well, an unusual occurrence that cannot…

The Basics of Momentum Investing
The Basics of Momentum Investing

By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) We often write about factor investing on our blog. We talk about factors like value, momentum, quality and low volatility and their practical use in the real…