kmcintyre Elite    Posts: 890 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR  User Profile | As always, extremely interesting! Mark, you should be a research scientist for Nirvana! So about a decade ago, I watched the IBD lists closely and tried to trade based on their lead. I bought the books and did the courses too. It seemed that by the time the stock hit the IBD list, it was well known to all and often close to a big sell off. I had about as much success shorting stocks as going long. After a year or so I decided IBD wasn't the holy grail for me. YMMV. I'm excited about back-testable OmniScan lists. I think they will lead to much greater returns for all strategies since lists can be tailored for the strategy (or vice versa). It makes logical sense to me. Wrt your comments about trending and RTM each having their moments of glory, I think this market phenomena explains portfolio switching. I can't wait for back-testable portfolio switching too. And not to be feature greedy, I really hope we see some tools for generating portfolios tailored to specific market conditions. So one does their best to match lists and strategies, then strategies into portfolios, then portfolio switching based on recent market conditions... Love the surf humor, dude. Tubular... Cheers Keith | |
