Category Archives: Market Timing

China’s Economic Growth is Actually Negative

In Sue Chang’s MarketWatch article last week titled “China’s economy may be in worse shape than people think,” the author quotes analyst David Straszheim at Evercore ISI: “Our proprietary Synthetic Growth Index (SGI) fell 1.1% month-on-month in July, and was … Continue reading

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Systematic Strategy Favors Cash Over Stocks

Volatility has increased significantly in the last few weeks and traders are now in panic mode. The best way to avoid panic is to use a simple, systematic, back-tested strategy that has proven to to be successful over decades. In … Continue reading

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08-31-2015 AAR Strategy Update Posted

The August 31, 2015 AAR Strategy update is now available on the AAR Subscribers page.  If you are not currently a subscriber and would like to learn more about the strategy, there is a detailed description on the AAR Strategy … Continue reading

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Recession Model Forecast: 08-01-2015

The following article updates the diffusion index, recession slack index, aggregate recession model, and aggregate peak-trough model through July 2015. In January 2015, I created a new explanatory variable for a market-based indicator and I added another new explanatory variable … Continue reading

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Alarming Report from ECRI

Given the free-fall decline in worldwide equity markets, any new insight into the global economy is particularly valuable right now. The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) published a report last week with the rather innocuous title “A Shrinking Trade Pie.” … Continue reading

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Negative US Equity Returns Over the Next Decade

In a recent post, I referenced Mark Hulbert’s article for MarketWatch that suggested the “Stock market is doomed to rise only 3.5% per year over the next decade.”  That may be wishful thinking. Jesse Felder’s recent column titled “The Warren … Continue reading

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Scary Long-Term Outlook for US Equity Returns

According to a recent Mark Hulbert article for MarketWatch, the “Stock market is doomed to rise only 3.5% per year over the next decade.” I do not put much stock in long-term market prognostications, but I do believe in long-term … Continue reading

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Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Model Forecast – July 2015

This article presents the Trader Edge aggregate neural network model forecast for the July 2015 non-farm payroll data, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM EDT.

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