We have two ways to grow your trading knowledge this weekend. Chris recently did a podcast which we thought would be of interest to you. The podcast was with Alpha Mind, a podcast a number of us listen to and very much respect. The topics discussed include: Understanding how markets behave. Understanding our behavioral biases. […]
Fact-Checking CNBC with Python
The ability to code is like having a trading superpower. For instance, when something that seems “rare” happens in the marketplace, you can quickly and easily write some code to see how rare that event actually is. Instead of relying on the financial media, you can do your own analysis. More importantly, you can see […]
A New Trading Strategy and Quantamentals…
Click here to listen to the 45-minute webinar Larry Connors and Chris Cain held on Wednesday, December 11. Quantamentals is rapidly becoming the hottest area of trading for major hedge funds and traders throughout the world. Quantamentals combines fundamental analysis, technical analysis and quantitative analysis stacking the largest edges together with the objective of achieving […]
UPDATED – Buying Quality Companies in an Uptrend Strategy
This past weekend, we shared with you a high performing, simple to understand Quantamentals strategy which has out-performed buy and hold by over 700% since 2003. Today, we’d like to share with you a Quantamentals strategy we originally published in August. This strategy outperformed buy and hold by over 1300%. Not only has it had […]
Here’s How To Stack Trading Edges In Your Favor
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]