Whether one uses technical analysis, fundamental analysis, or quantitative analysis, we’re all looking to do the same thing. Find the opportunities with the largest edges and look to profit from them while minimizing the risk. Connors Research, and the research which preceded the forming of our company, has been publishing market strategies and edges since… [Read More]
The Relative Strength Momentum Edge
In last week’s Connors Research Trader’s Journal, we discussed the low volatility edge. This is the empirical observation that stocks with lower historical volatility tend to outperform stocks with higher historical volatility through time. Today we are going to present another edge to incorporate into your trading and investing models – relative strength momentum. While… [Read More]
The Low Volatility Edge
One of the main takeaways from our recent Quantamentals course is that combining different edges together leads to greatly enhanced trading and investment results. In our course, we specifically combined historical edges from Fundamental, Technical and Quantitative analysis to build high performing portfolios. This stacking of edges ultimately led to portfolios with double-digit returns and… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 64): 3 Rules – A Nearly 500% Increase in Cumulative Returns
Can your trading and portfolio returns be increased by combining the best of technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and quantitative analysis (known as “Quantamentals”)? In our opinion, and based firmly on the data, the answer is yes…oftentimes by a great amount. We’ve been publishing trading and investing research since 1995. Based on what we’re seeing from… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 63): Here are the Historical Edges with “Weekly” RSI
For the past 15+ years, we’ve been publishing extensive research on the 2-period and 4-period RSI. Even though Welles Wilder created the original research for RSI in the 1970’s using a 14-period RSI, the indicator was basically unused by traders 15 years ago. Now it’s ubiquitous with technical traders, especially on a daily reading basis…. [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 62): Here’s A Better Way To Build Your Portfolio
In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal, we want to share with you a great podcast from AQR, the second-largest hedge fund in the world. In it, they discuss the importance of combining multiple strategies (professionally known as “factors”) to increase your investment results. This podcast especially focuses on the implementation of these… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 61): “Stacking” Historical Edges Improves Performance
In this Connors Research Traders Journal issue, we will present a few of the factors we utilize in building our Quantamental models and will be teaching in our upcoming course, Quantamentals – The Next Forefront of Trading and Investing. The test results show that “stacking” multiple factors results in improved performance. Depending on how you… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 60): Learning The Investment Secrets of the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (Norges) is the largest in the world. They manage over $1 trillion dollars and have some of the best investment research available. In our upcoming course, Quantamentals: The Next Forefront of Trading and Investing, we will be applying fundamental characteristics that have historically produced excess returns and combining them with… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 59): Part 2 – Quantamentals; The Next Great Forefront of Trading and Investing
In the previous issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal, we looked at how Quantamentals is rapidly becoming the next frontier of trading and investing. We view Quantamentals as having three parts: Quantitative Analysis Technical Analysis Fundamental Analysis For decades, each of the above were viewed as separate fields. Fundamental Analysis has been around the… [Read More]
Free Webinar – Quantamentals; The New Forefront of Trading and Investing
I’d like to invite you to a free 45-minute webinar I’ll be conducting with Chris Cain, CMT, this Monday, September 16 at 1:00 pm ET. Chris and I will discuss with you Quantamentals; The New Forefront of Trading and Investing Quantamentals is rapidly growing for good reason. It combines the best of technical analysis, with… [Read More]
