Author Archives: Bill Rempel

It’s A Tough Time To Be Aggressive

July 6, 2008 – 10:34 am

In its initial version, Aggressive was an equal-weighted portfolio derived from two different quantitative stock screens, based on companies that trade on U.S. exchanges. Each screen produced an exceptional trading plan by itself, but when the two were combined, the volatility of returns was reduced without much degradation of total returns. This was because their […]

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Mid-Year Wrap-Up

June 30, 2008 – 6:23 pm

These are my personal trading returns as of month-end June 2008.
Current Month Return: -7.5%
Year To Date Return: -4.5%
3 Month Return: 1.6%
6 Month Return: -4.5%
12 Month Return: -0.3%
24 Month Return: 11.2%
24 Month Annualized Return: 5.5%
36 Month Return: 51.5%
36 Month Annualized Return: 14.8%
Since Inception Return: 45.4%
Since Inception, […]

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Rotational Portfolio Loves This Market

June 29, 2008 – 12:59 pm

Rotational combines component rotation and asset class rotation to hold a small basket of ETFs or ETNs, selecting the handful with the most momentum from a representative sampling of classes and components. Throughout this article, when I refer to momentum, I am referring to an exponentially smoothed measure based solely on price movement.
Information […]

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Fundamental Portfolio Holds Its Own

June 22, 2008 – 8:04 am

Fundamental is a moderately low-beta, moderately low-turnover trading plan for stocks traded on major U.S. exchanges. It focuses on providing above-market returns over the longer term while keeping a variability of returns that is similar to the market’s risk profile.
Information is as of the close on June 20, 2008.
Model Allocation
Based on beginning […]

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Hammer Time For The Market

June 15, 2008 – 8:12 am

Timing attempts to provide market equivalent returns over the long term, with a substantial reduction in variability of returns. The two components of the Timing program are EZ+Macro and Fear/Greed. This system trades rarely and splits its allocations between ETFs tracking the S&P 500, the intermediate-term U.S. Treasuries, and cash.
System recap is presented first […]

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