Time for my annual post updating statistics for the various portfolios that I track. This is the last post rounding up 2019 statististics. All portfolio stats were gathered using AllocateSmartly, P123, various other sites like MSCI, and the wonder that is Excel. Obviously, there are many more portfolio options out there. Read more
This post updates the quant strategies performance through year end 2019. The 2018 version of the post is here. If you’re new to all this quant stuff, and like what you see, you can start on my Portfolios page and read through the posts in the quant section. Then you Read more
In this post I update my TAA Batting Averages post from last year. The introduction to that post sums up the intent of this excercise pretty well so I’ll just say the same thing again this year. In today’s post I want to look at long term TAA model performance Read more
Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year to update portfolio performance statistics. It will take me a few more days to complete all my data gathering for TAA, Quant, and Buy and Hold Portfolios before I can do my usual Comparing Portfolio performance post for 2019. I’ll also Read more
In this post I take a look a popular and quite simple quant strategy that combines value and profitability, the Greenblatt Value Strategy. Results are impressive and the strategy has held up better than most value strategies over the last 10 years. And even more impressive it has even outperformed Read more
Update: added comparison to SPY-COMP. This post introduces a quant trading model based on volatility. More specifically it uses the prices of volatility futures contracts based on the SP500 to make risk-on and risk-off decisions that can be used to trade various risk-assets. Why Volatility? There is a bunch of Read more
Back in March of this year I posted about a low volatility quant strategy that I added to the QuantPulse subscription. In that post I mentioned a strategy that combines the low volatility, value, and momentum factors to increase performance and still keep drawdowns in check. The strategy is called Read more
A quick post this morning. Recently, I had the pleasure to be interviewed on the System Trader Podcast. Thanks Jack! Jack has had some great guests on his show like Gary Antonacci, Jack Vogel, Andreas Clenow and many more. The interview comes at a great time too as pretty soon, Read more
An alternative title for this post could be, the internet rediscovers momentum and hates it, episode 5,000…. Meb Faber posted the other day on a strategy that buys stocks only at their all-time highs and otherwise holds bonds the rest of the time. The strategy has great risk-adjusted returns. It’s Read more
Ok, one more bond post. I thought I was done with this little series of bond TAA posts but based on some feedback and some very astute questions from my subscribers I decided I needed to do one more. So, here is the basic question I received, “Aren’t you concerned Read more
This is my last post in the three part series on TAA bond portfolios before I get back to the equity side of things. Today I wanted to look at a way an investor can significantly increase returns in their bond strategies. The TAA strategy I’ll present below uses fixed Read more