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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 profitability/risk and recognize that rules for other kinds of options may be different.

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, (2) the increased risk of in-the-money expirations.