2016 was a rather boring investment year that turned out surprisingly profitable if you used the strategies that worked. I largely missed the best strategies boat as my portfolio was over 60% in cash throughout the year. In spite of that I was still able to earn a respectable 5%. [...]
You have most likely already know about the Magic Formula investment strategy developed by Joel Greenblatt and described in his excellent book called The Little Book that Still Beats the Market. It is also the book that got me started with quantitative investing. Your step by step guide In this [...]
I am sure you have heard of the Magic Formula investing, if not here is a quick summary. It is an investing strategy was explained in the excellent book by Joel Greenblatt called ?The little book that still beats the market? and it helps you find good quality companies that [...]
?How do you select investment ideas for the newsletter?? is a question we have received from quite a few subscribers and I thought would also interest you. After all subscribers invest their hard earned money in these ideas. Step one The first step is to get a list of companies [...]
What exactly was the best strategy in 2016 is a question I am sure you also asked yourself. Even in the dull market some strategies did unbelievably well. What has worked in 2016 ? value is not dead I will get right to the point about what strategy would [...]
In this article you will meet the quant investor - author of two investment books which I am sure you will also find interesting. The first one is called Quantitative Investing: Strategies to exploit stock market anomalies for all investors. The second one is The Lazy Fundamental Analyst: Applying quantitative [...]
If I have not yet convinced you that the Piotroski F-Score can improve your investment returns I am not sure what more I can do. For example, in this article I showed you how it improved the average returns of 13 investment strategies by over 200% over 12 years. That's [...]
In March this year Jim O?Shaughnessy (author of What Works on Wall Street) published an interesting research paper called A True Microcap Strategy. The paper made a really convincing argument for investing in microcap companies including returns of 64900% over 45 years (for exact returns continue reading). What is a [...]
Dear Fellow Investor Are you thinking about or have subscribed to a stock screener. ?Now what?? you may be asking yourself. A stock screener is a powerful tool that can give you exactly what you want, but because of all the choices (strategies, countries and ratios) it can leave you [...]
Raman Minhas A while ago I stumbled onto the very interesting value investing website kaizen investor written by the UK based ex medical doctor Raman Minhas. Raman is on his way to financial independence through saving and value investing, and writes about it on his website. Interview [...]
