Investing Research Articles

The Value Line Select ETF (VLSE) Index “is an equal-dollar weighted index comprised of between 30 and 100 U.S. traded ETFs ranked #1 by Value Line Publishing, Inc… The Value Line ETF Ranking System seeks to select the ‘best-for-investment’ ETFs among all U.S. traded ETFs…approximately 10% of all traded ETFs but no more than 100… Keep Reading

…evidence from hedge fund due diligence reports indicates a substantial level of misrepresentation by fund managers and confirms return chasing by investors. Key indicators of fund manager truthfulness are uses of external asset pricing and a major auditing firm.

…there is not enough information on VectorVest’s public web site to do any detailed evaluation.

…Asian stock markets do to some degree follow the U.S. market, including its sharp drops. However, U.S. market plunges are rare and clustered, the Asian market responses to these plunges are noisy, and overnight/weekend gaps on Asian markets substantially absorb plunge contagion.

…evidence indicates that aggregate earnings alone are not a useful predictor of overall stock market behavior, but firm-level (highly segmented industry) earnings are useful for predicting returns of individual stocks (highly segmented industries).

There is not enough information publicly available on the web to test his claims.

There is not enough information on the Financial Picks web site to evaluate the claims of accuracy or returns there.

…evidence suggests that covered call writers who can achieve relatively low trading frictions can maximize returns by focusing on small, high-volatility, illiquid past winners. For small players, achieving low trading frictions is problematic.

Alan M. Newman, Editor of Alan M. Newman’s Stock Market Crosscurrents, wrote on 8/3/09:

…evidence from experimental tests indicates that investor/trader overreaction probably is pervasive, partly driven by overconfidence and not subject to moderation through learning. Overreaction tends to elevate portfolio volatility and reduce portfolio Sharpe ratio.