The “magic formula investing” system parameters and principles are used by Joel Greenblatt in his approach to value investing to outperform the market. In his book ‘The Little Book that Beats the Market’, Greenblatt writes that this system buys cheap stocks of 30 companies that have high earnings yield and also a high return on […]
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This is a guest post by Michael Dehoyos. Trading can be a daunting prospect to someone completely new to it, which is why so many people trust companies to invest and trade for them. However, by giving over your portfolio to a company, you’re also giving up a certain level of control over your own
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Nicolas Darvas was a professional dancer in the 1950s that developed a trend trading system for stocks that turned his $36,000 into $2.25 million between 1956 and 1958. He used price momentum near all time highs with buy stops and trailing stops to trade the highest momentum stocks during one bull market to compound money
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The Kelly Criterion is a scientific gambling method using a formula for bet sizing that mathematically calculates the proper position size for placing a bet based on the odds. The Kelly bet size is calculated by optimizing the projected value of the wealth logarithm, which is equivalent to maximizing the expected geometric growth rate of
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A spinning top is a single candlestick pattern that has a body in the middle of two longer wicks. A spinning top chart pattern is a signal that neither buyers or sellers have control of price action in the time frame of the candle. The spinning top candle shows that price ended up closer to
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Portfolio backtesting is the process of using historical price data to analyze and backtest the returns of a group of stocks, exchange traded funds, or mutual funds in the past. A complete portfolio backtest of your watchlist can visualize the risk of correlations, optimum percentage of capital exposures, drawdowns, and potential for diversification to hedge.
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Bill Ackman is ranked as America’s 21st richest hedge fund manager with a current net worth of over $2 billion. He is ranked #391 on the Forbes 400 wealthy list. Bill Ackman is a self-made billionaire through operating the hedge fund he founded in 2004, Pershing Square Capital Management. He rose to fame for his
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“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it, he who doesn’t, pays it.” -Unknown Why is compound interest considered the eighth wonder of the world? Here are three shocking examples of the exponential growth of compounding. If you start with capital and grow it an additional 1% everyday
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You have probably heard of the bullish 50/200 day moving average crossover golden cross or the the bearish 50/200 day moving average cross under death cross which is a long term trend signal on charts, especially for the major stock indexes. These signals are even mentioned on financial news networks when they occur in real
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In 1996 two professors studied a sample of millionaires in the United States to understand the path that took them to a million dollar net worth. The results were very surprising as their path and lifestyle was very unexpected. They did not find millionaires who inherited their wealth but earned it their self. They weren’t
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