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Intro to rules based Investing – Why follow an investment strategy?

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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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Day of month effect on rebalancing a portfolio

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In this post we will: Take a look at a simple, momentum based, monthly rebalanced Equity/Bond portfolio consisting of two ETFs: SPY and TLT. Search for what has been the optimal dates in the month to rebalance such a portfolio. Each month we allocate to SPY and TLT. If SPY has outperformed  TLT we rebalance …

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