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Beat the Market with Hot-Anomaly Switching?

…evidence indicates that a trader who periodically switches to the hottest known anomaly based on a rolling window of past performance may be able to beat the market. Anomalies appear to have their own kind of momentum.

Working Papers vs. Journal Articles?

The quality of working papers from academia is as high as, or higher than, that of many analyses available to investors from investment industry sources and from other investors.

Are Momentum Strategies Fragile?

The momentum investing approach, whether implemented via simple moving average (SMA) crossovers or lagged returns (or a combination) may be fragile with respect to exact parameter selection…

Short-term Reversal by Industry

…evidence suggests that investors can concentrate the short-term (one month) stock return reversal effect by focusing at the industry level.

Doug Fabian: Still Successfully Investing?

…the long-run outperformance claimed by Doug Fabian appears to be a legacy of methods no longer strictly followed.

Diversifying Across Equity Anomalies

…evidence from nearly six decades of data indicates that diversifying across stock return anomalies consistently beats individual anomalies and the broad stock market.

How About Doug Casey?

…there is not enough public information on these sites to support due diligence on the investment performance of Doug Casey’s advice.

How About Roger Conrad?

…there is not enough public information on these sites to support due diligence on the investment performance of Roger Conrad’s advice.

Refining the Accrual Anomalies

…evidence indicates that that discretionary (but not non-discretionary) aggregate accruals scaled to total assets significantly predict next-year equity market returns and that firm-level accruals scaled to earnings have substantially stronger and more consistent predictive power for future individual stock returns than accruals scaled to total assets.

Newsworthy Hedge Funds Underperform?

…evidence indicates that hedge fund investors should lean toward low-profile funds.