10/29/2017 Performance Metrics

Sector Model	XLE	-1.50%
Full Model	Date	Return	Days
BT	8/11/2015	-47.48%	810
TMK	11/23/2015	42.80%	706
NVR	12/16/2015	95.33%	683
CMP	2/19/2016	2.00%	618
NVR	2/22/2016	103.57%	615
AMWD	3/17/2016	46.23%	591
CASY	5/12/2016	0.68%	535
AEM	6/7/2016	-8.68%	509
ESRX	6/13/2016	-18.07%	503
AMED	6/16/2016	-0.22%	500
FRO	6/27/2016	-13.48%	489
ASTE	7/12/2016	-10.64%	474
MFC	9/1/2016	53.20%	423
SFM	9/8/2016	-8.89%	416
CFFN	9/12/2016	7.65%	412
FIG	12/6/2016	57.25%	327
FOSL	5/11/2017	-39.20%	171
HIBB	7/25/2017	2.29%	96
FOSL	7/27/2017	-20.47%	94
HZO	8/1/2017	6.73%	89
(Since 5/31/2011)
S&P	Annualized	10.67%
Sector Model	Annualized	17.13%
Full Model	Annualized	13.20%
S&P	Total	91.58%
Sector Model	Total	175.69%
Full Model	Total	121.55%
Sector Model	Advantage	6.46%
Full Model	Advantage	2.54%
	Previous	2017
S&P	66.43%	15.11%
Sector Model	120.54%	25.01%
Full Model	91.27%	15.83%

The model continues to outperform, with the Sector Model maintaining a lead for an IRA tax free account and the Full Model maintaining the lead for a taxable account.

The Full Model calculates holding periods based on after tax returns, to maximize the annualized return rate in a regular investment account.

The chart is generated by using the return rates of all stocks selected by the model since 5/31/2011, even after they were sold, in order to determine the ideal holding period.  Currently that ideal holding period for any given stock is 2289 calendar days.

There are basically two types of trades: momentum and mean reversion.

And there are two types of investment: passive and active.

Passive investment is simply purchasing an index fund and holding it into retirement.  For 401Ks, that’s about the only choice anyone has.

For anyone who has moved a 401K into a self driven IRA account, the options are whether to try to trade actively or to stick with another index fund.  SPY is the simplest – an ETF that mimics the return of the entire S&P index of 500 large cap stocks.  For the vast majority of folks this is infinitely better than trying to actively trade, because in active trading you are fighting against high frequency trading robots that self adapt to whatever tactic will scare you into selling low and trick you into buying high.

I know, because that’s exactly what happened to me when I started trading.

I couldn’t compete with those lightning fast robots.

So I made my own robot – one so glacially slow that it would starve out both the fast robots and the tax man.  It won’t make 60% a year.  But it won’t lose 90% of my retirement to those twin thieves either.

It’s also slow enough to follow, if you’d like.

You’re welcome.

Tim