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First published at Logical-Invest.com What is the Permanent Portfolio by Harry Browne Harry Browne’s intention was to find a solution for the money “you need to take care of you for the rest of your life”. He called it the Permanent Portfolio because he believed that once an investor sets it up, they never have …
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1. Basics What is rules based Investing? In rules-based-investing we define a clear set of rules. These rules comprise an investment strategy. Here is an example strategy: “At the first day of the month, look at the performance of bonds versus stocks by calulating the 3-month performances of two exchange traded funds, SPY (the SPDR …
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Read pt.1 REad pt.2 Back in 2009 Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez published several short term trading systems in their book “High Probability ETF Trading”. They described 7 mean reverting strategies. What happens, then once a strategy becomes public domain? Do they loose their edge? All tests are performed on a set of 20 ETFs: DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLV …
Read more7 Winning Trading Systems Reviewed – Pt. 3: RSI 25 75
Back in 2009 Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez published several short term trading systems in their book “High Probability ETF Trading”. They described 7 mean reverting strategies. What happens, then once a strategy becomes public domain? Do they loose their edge?All tests are performed on a set of 20 ETFs:DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLVTthe strategy can hold up to 10 ETFs …
Read more7 Winning Trading Systems Reviewed – Pt. 2: MDD / MDU
If you bought Bovespa on Thursday and sold on Friday every week since 2003, you would be rich (if you compounded). We know this. If one was to follow such a strategy, in real-time, would it make money? In the following strategy an investor would buy at the Close of the “optimal” day that performed …
