ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing A Strategy (Conclusion)

Mish Schneider | June 28, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing A Strategy (Conclusion)

We are going to close out our “Designing A Strategy” series this week.  We spent seven weeks going through the process we used for designing and testing our ETF strategies.  We thought …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing A Strategy (Part 7)

Mish Schneider | June 22, 2014

Note to ETF Sector Plus Users:

We are changing the displayed “Av Ret.” to “TSI” which stands for Trend Strength Indicator.  The calculation is unchanged.  We feel that the new name is more accurately descriptive of what we are trying …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Proof of Concept

Mish Schneider | June 14, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Proof of Concept

In the last two weeks we have rolled out an alternate way to trade both the ETF Sector Plus and ETF Country Plus models.  We spent extensive time with a bottom-up approach evaluating …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Stops and Targets!

Mish Schneider | June 7, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Stops and Targets!!!

This last week we quietly rolled out a new way to trade our ETF strategies.  It involves the use of stops and targets.  The sector model is live, while we plan to roll …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing a Strategy (Part 6)

Mish Schneider | June 1, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy (Part 6)

We are nearing the end of this extended series on how to design and build a trading strategy.  We have been focusing on how this relates to our ETF models, but …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing a Strategy (Part 5)

Mish Schneider | May 26, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy (Part 5)

This week we are continuing our series on how to build a model around our core concept of trend strength and persistence.  Last week we covered the important topic of money …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing a Strategy (Part 4)

Mish Schneider | May 18, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy (Part 4)

We are now several weeks into a series of articles on the process of designing robust strategies that can beat the market.  We have talked about starting with a central concept …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing a Strategy (Part 3)

Mish Schneider | May 11, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy (Part 3)

We are now a few weeks into a series of articles on the process of designing robust strategies that can beat the market.  In the first article we discussed starting with …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: Designing a Strategy

Mish Schneider | May 4, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy

 

Last week I talked a little about the central concept that we built our ETF strategies around:  Relative price momentum and how it relates to trend persistence.  This simple concept by itself …


ETF Complete Portfolio Strategy Insights: ETFs in Motion Tend to Stay in Motion

Mish Schneider | April 27, 2014

This Week’s Strategy Lesson: ETFs in Motion Tend to Stay in Motion

The ETF models we designed at MarketGauge are based on one fundamental concept: Trend Persistence. Or another way of saying that, to paraphrase Isaac Newton: “ETFs in motion …