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The conundrum

October 12, 2017 by Keith Richards 9 Comments

The stock market has a seasonal tendency to be stronger from November to April, then, on average, weaker from May through October. Markets underperform about 70% of the time over the “weak” six months from May to October. That leaves similar, or better performance periods during about 30% of the time during these “bad months”. Read More

Filed Under: market timing, technical analysis, US Markets Tagged With: market timing, seasonal investing

Low volatility wins in a secular sideways market

January 31, 2013 by Keith Richards 8 Comments

There are quite a few ETFs coming out these days marketed as “low volatility” securities. IShares has quite a host of these low-vol ETFs representing various international markets. I will disclose that I hold the iShares US minimum-vol ETF (XMU-T) in the ValueTrend Managed Equity Platform. BMO has a Canadian product that I also own Read More

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Whaz-up with da’ markets?

About a week ago, we got a neartermed timing model “sell signal”. This lines up with the “cautious” reading I got from the more macro-viewing Bear-o-meter on February 4th Read More

Contrarian picks from the master

After speaking at the MoneyShow in Orlando, I had a very nice sit down with Benj Gallandar. Benj is co-editor of Contra the Heard investment newsletter. I really like their work, and it was a real Read More

Look outside of North America for opportunities

America may be known as the “land of opportunity” insofar as its more liberty / entrepreneur environment. That being said – the US stock market may have entered into a prolonged period of relative Read More

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