S&P Midcap, Equal-Weight, Short-Selling, Aroon Indicator (And More)
During the last week we published many articles:
S&P Midcap:
Despite being a stock index, the midcap stocks move very differently than S&P 500. Strategies that work in the overall market are less likely to be successful on the S&P 400 Midcap index:
Aroon Indicator Strategy:
The Aroon indicator is not well-known. After describing the indicator we did some backtesting:
S&P 500 Equal-Weight Strategy:
The S&P 500 is market-weighted, meaning the market cap sets the weighting of the index. As of writing, Apple has a weighting of 7.4%, and the 5 biggest companies are 23% of the index.
How has the equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 performed?
Contrarian trading strategy:
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful!
The above quote is from Warren Buffett. Does it pay to be contrarian?
Commodity Trading Strategy:
The commodity market is huge. Is it possible to develop a commodity trading strategy?
If you are interested in commodities you might also like our related articles about commodity trading strategies:
Moats and SWOT:
Warren Buffett is famous for his metaphor of investing in companies with a “moat”. How has a “moat” strategy performed?
Short selling
Short selling is difficult. Recent action in Bed Bath And Beyond (BBBY) is a perfect example of that. You can easily be caught in a short squeeze. We published an article about short squeezes:
We would also like to remind you about the other articles we have written about short selling:
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