By design, most momentum investing strategies trade once a month. Short-term market movements are often little more than noise, and attempting to capture every market up and down can be a futile exercise—at least for systematic investment strategies. That said, some successful trading strategies are specifically designed to capture short-term...

In my earlier years, I had a lot of fun with “False Profits?”. False Profits is just a little pun as in “false prophets”. I would point out forecasts that appeared in the financial media and then compare them to the “quite different” reality that followed. The goal was to...

Momentum Investing is a Tactical Asset Allocation using trend following and other systematic approaches, like seasonality and mean reversion, offering the potential for higher returns with less risk than buy-and-hold investing. Another benefit of a systematic, rules-based approach is that they can keep investors and asset managers from being swayed...