Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Jamie Gritton's MI Stock Screen Backtester

To show that there are numerous ways to Crush the Market using a free trading strategy, we present the following stock screen, backtested on Jamie Gritton's MI Backtester:

SOS_A screen, originally from from the Motley Fool Mechanical Investing discussion board. This is a 'screen of screens' which runs several stock screens and picks the highest ranking stocks. Seems to work pretty well:

Year SOS_A return
1986 31
1987 31
1988 32
1989 36
1990 8
1991 84
1992 34
1993 52
1994 27
1995 110
1996 63
1997 34
1998 62
1999 212
2000 -40
2001 -36
2002 -14
2003 61
2004 2
2005 30
2006 9
2007 35

You can learn more about the stock screens derived from the Motley Fool boards (and alot about stock screening strategies) here.

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