Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Relative strength stock screen


Here's a stock screen from the Motley Fool Mechanical Investing boards which uses relative strength as it's sole criteria. This is a market crushing strategy for people with little time to trade, since it is rebalanced every 3 months. 30% annual return is not too shabby...

Actual screen code:
Define {RS13WKT12}
Uses [Timeliness Rank] [Total Return 13-Week]
Deblank [Timeliness Rank] [Total Return 13-Week]
Keep :[Timeliness Rank]<=2 Sort Descending [Total Return 13-Week] ; Top :10 End Results from backtest.org from holding the top 10 stocks for 3 months at a time:

CAGR 30 12
GSD 38 16
Sharpe Ratio 0.83 0.54
Screen
S&P

1986
22 24
1987
17 6
1988
17 10
1989
37 35
1990
-2 -5
1991
107 31
1992
11 7
1993
31 10
1994
13 2
1995
48 39
1996
56 23
1997
-5 28
1998
37 35
1999
209 18
2000
21 -11
2001
-33 -9
2002
-1 -22
2003
114 28
2004
57 10
2005
12 8
2006
33 14
2007
11 6

2 comments:

aditi said...

Which trading strategy should be used totally depends on market conditions. One should prefer to use strategy which is comfortable to use and easy to understand. Using strategy with which you are not familiar with will not help to succeed in market as you would not have any idea what to do if market shows some uncertain movements. To be on the safer side best intraday tips can be used.

Esha Agrawal said...

The blog has described good points about the navigation impact on investing.


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