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Combining Value and Earnings Surprise

...investors may be able to achieve abnormal returns by combining value and earnings surprises, with most of the benefit coming from value stocks with positive earnings surprises and positive earnings announcement abnormal returns.

Timing Ability of Bond Mutual Fund Managers

...evidence provides weak support for a belief that managers of U.S. bond mutual funds can on average time the bond market, but fund costs/fees offset any associated net outperformance of reasonable benchmarks.

What About KeyTurningDates.com?

There is not much information on the site...

Abnormal Returns After Switches to/from Daylight Saving Time?

...evidence from a broad international test indicates that switches to/from daylight savings time have no reliable effect on short-term stock returns.

How Rigorous is the Stock Trader’s Almanac?

You can use these three categories (and key word searches) to identify similar analyses and thereby get a second opinion on specific anomalies.

A Few Notes on The Options Trading Body of Knowledge

...investors may find The Options Trading Body of Knowledge useful as a broad source of information on how strategies for stock options work, but they should be skeptical of any judgments it offers on strategy...

How Can You Avoid the Fat Left Tails?

Nassim Taleb offers some vague guidance on avoiding wildly bad events. See...

Allocating Assets for Retirement

...retirees may be able to achieve both higher spending allowances and lower probabilities of portfolio exhaustion by allocating part of their portfolios to a safe core and the balance to a growth-tilted stocks-bonds mix.

A Better Way to Define Value?

...investors may be able to exploit the value premium more efficiently and completely by defining it using the Enterprise Multiple rather than the book-to-market ratio.

Combine Momentum with Low Volatility?

Best guess is that combining low volatility with high momentum might offer an edge...

Outperformance Based on Three Macroeconomic Indicators

...allocating funds to stocks and Treasuries according to the relationships between their past returns and these three off-the-beaten-path macroeconomic indicators may produce market-beating results.

Stock Picking for Individual Investors?

The notion that individuals are at a disadvantage compared to big traders in constructing and maintaining a diversified portfolio of specific stocks seems reasonable.

Strike Price Rolls for Option Writes?

For the strike-rolling process you describe to enhance returns over the long run, the incrementally accrued time value must more than offset the combined effects of: (1) the incremental trading frictions (principally bid-ask spreads); and,...

Ways to Exploit ex-Dividend Effects?

The net of this research appears to be that only very low-cost traders (such as market makers) can effectively exploit the anomaly.

How About the Automated Trading Systems on Infomercials?

It seems reasonable to infer from this analysis that many people "renting" automated trading strategies do not do very well and that they may underperform the broad stock market as a group.

Wash Rules on Iterative Option Writes?

IRS rules involving wash sales and options as described in Publication 550 (2008) are complicated.

Upside Down Beta Distributions for Value and Momentum?

...value-beta and momentum-beta relationships can and recently have reached such extremes that value and momentum strategies may impound untended assumptions about the future market trend.

Any Tools to Implement Value-Momentum Asset Class Allocation?

CXOadvisory.com has not developed any screens or models to implement or replicate this approach.

Sell Index Put Options Only When Above Long-term SMA?

Results suggest that the TOTM return is roughly zero in falling markets, so it can still support options selling (but with no safety margin for at-the-money options). Based on this result, selling options only when...

You Should Look at Didier Sornette’s Work Again

A reader suggested: “I know you’ve looked at Didier Sornette’s work in the past, but I think it would be worthwhile to look at his work again. His latest is ‘Bubble Diagnosis and Prediction of...

Short-term Net Money Flow and Stock Returns

...evidence from simple tests on a limited dataset do not support a belief that net money flow is usefully predictive of weekly or monthly stock market returns.

Aggregate Money Flow a Useful Stock Market Indicator?

Research showing that equity investors in aggregate materially underperform the market via timing of purchases and sales (aggregated money flow) is extensive. See...

Abnormal Returns from Providing Liquidity After Hours?

...evidence indicates that traders can reliably earn a material premium by providing liquidity for after-hours trading of U.S. stocks and closing these trades at the next market open, so long as the after-hours trading in...

Aggregate Buyback Activity a Useful Stock Market Indicator?

"Results appear to indicate that firm executives are not especially good timers of the aggregate stock market."

Why the Skip-period in Momentum Strategies?

The rationale is recognition of a short-term reaction for stocks with momentum concentrated in a recent interval.