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December 20, 2020 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Trend Following With ETFs and Large Cap Stocks

I was browsing Quantpedia and came across an investment strategy called Asset Class Trend Following, originally credited to Meb Faber. The strategy is very simple so I decided to run a couple of quick backtests and see if I could find anything interesting.  Asset Class Trend Following Rules The rules are straightforward… “Using an investment […]

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December 9, 2020 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Should You Trade This Earnings Pullback Strategy?

I’ve written a few articles lately that look at the use of valuation metrics on investing strategies.  Those articles prompted a reader to ask if I could test a strategy called the EV/EBITDA pullback.  The idea behind this strategy is to buy a stock when the EV/EBITDA ratio deviates 30% or more below the historical […]

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October 20, 2020 By Joe Marwood 10 Comments

What Trading Signals Work Best For Long-Term Investors?

Simple technical analysis is of limited use to long-term investors. Momentum can last for a long time but it doesn’t have much predictive ability on a five or ten year time horizon. Likewise, indicators like moving averages or RSI are best suited for shorter-term trading. With that said, you don’t know until you test. So in […]

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October 13, 2020 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How To Use Stop Losses And Profit Targets

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I started writing this post last week.  The idea was to run a large-scale optimization to see which profit targets and stop losses work best when trading US stocks (similar to the article I wrote on trailing stops). I wanted to find out if it’s better to use a tight profit target or a loose […]

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September 22, 2020 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

Should You Buy Oversold Stocks? (Waterfall Pattern)

In order to make a profit in stocks you need to sell at a higher price than you purchased.  Because of this, many traders look for stocks that have dropped to extremely oversold levels in the hope that they will bounce back from their low levels.  One such pattern traders look for is known as […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Technical Analysis Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

September 16, 2020 By Joe Marwood 12 Comments

Which Trailing Stop Is The Best?

Trailing stops are a simple way to exit a trade. The idea is you buy a stock and then trail your stop loss a little way below it as the trade goes on. This way you can let the trend continue in your favor but lock in your profits once the stock turns round. The […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Technical Analysis, Top Posts Tagged With: stocks, strategies

September 9, 2020 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Should You Buy Low Priced Stocks?

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Some investors believe that lower price stocks produce better investment returns than higher priced stocks. It’s always tempting to look at stocks trading under $10 in the hope of finding a ten or twenty bagger. In some ways this makes sense. Higher priced stocks are often larger and more mature businesses that grow more slowly. Low […]

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July 29, 2020 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

13 Reasons You Should Learn The Amibroker CBT

This week we published another new course to Marwood Research called Amibroker CBT Intensive which teaches you how to use the Amibroker custom backtester (CBT). The Amibroker CBT can be difficult to grasp at first but it offers the ability to take complete control of the backtesting process, creating your very own backtesting environment. This […]

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July 22, 2020 By Joe Marwood 11 Comments

Should You Buy 52-Week Highs Or 52-Week Lows?

Whatever your investing style it’s useful to have a way to whittle down the thousands of available stocks to a more manageable number.  Over the years, I’ve listened to many investors explain how they do it. Often, the first step is to look at the Wall Street Journal for stocks making new 52-week highs or […]

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May 25, 2020 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

5 Things You Learn From Backtesting Trading Strategies

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When people talk about backtesting their minds often turn to formulas and equity curves. Some may even be drawn to data mining or curve fitting, things that can go wrong. But backtesting is not just a way to test the profitability of a trading signal. In fact, backtesting has taught me many important lessons about […]

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May 15, 2020 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

Should You Invest In Dividend Aristocrats?

Dividend Aristocrats are stocks from the S&P 500 that have managed to increase their dividends for 25 consecutive years or more. They are typically large, blue-chip companies with a market cap of at least $3 billion. One example of a Dividend Aristocrat is Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) which has 57 years of consecutive dividend increases. […]

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April 19, 2020 By Joe Marwood 6 Comments

Testing Turnaround Tuesday

After a big move on a Monday you will often hear traders talk about turnaround Tuesday. The concept is very simple. When markets start the week in a big way, they will often settle down on Tuesday and put in a decent reversal. Looking at the data, we find that there is a small edge […]

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February 19, 2020 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Performance Of Our Trading Systems In 2019

One of the main reasons why I started Marwood Research is so I have a place to store all of my trading systems. Uploading them online means I can now look back and see how they have performed since they were published.  Being able to evaluate the systems on new, unseen data is really important […]

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February 13, 2020 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

January 2020 Review

january 2020 investing review

Regular readers know that I started a project last year called Zero To A Million. The goal of this project is to prove that anyone can become a millionaire by investing a small amount into the stock market each month. It’s also to prove that you can invest in individual stocks and you don’t have to […]

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January 23, 2020 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

10 Trading Strategies For A Bear Market

Interest rates are low, taxes are low and the stock market is firing on all cylinders.  The current bull market is already the longest in history and just a few percent away from being the largest in history.  But bull markets cannot last forever. Some time in the not too distant future a bear market […]

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