Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/9/19 through 12/13/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs.
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- Bollinger Bands: Buy Low and Sell High?
Evidence from tests on SPY over nearly 26 years offers little support for belief that investors can beat the broad U.S. stock market by simply using Bollinger Bands to buy the market low and sell it high. - Alternative Test of Using P/E10 Thresholds to Time the U.S. Stock Market
Evidence does not support belief that P/E10 Variable Timing is superior to P/E10 Fixed Timing over the past 26+ years. - More Stock Funds Than Stocks?
Evidence from analysis of U.S. equity mutual fund and equity ETF holdings over the last 12 years indicates that there about 10 fund categories with a tendency toward large/growth stocks. - PPI and the Stock Market
Evidence suggests that historically large jumps in PPI are bad for the U.S. stock market next year, but findings are not very reliable. - Smart Money Indicator for Stocks vs. Bonds
Evidence indicates that the sign of SMI successfully exploits a market forecasting advantage of institutional investors compared to individual investors over intervals during which institutions likely apply that advantage.