AIM highs and lows of 2018 – and a checklist for avoiding disasters

Sixteen companies were forced off the Alternative Investment Market last year because of financial stress or insolvency. That was up from nine companies that suffered the same fate in 2017. When you add them to those that hit problems but somehow manag…

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Trend Following: Momentum or Moving Average? [PREMIUM]

Are moving averages or intrinsic (time series) momentum theoretically better for following trends in asset prices? In their November 2018 paper entitled “Trend Following with Momentum Versus Moving Average: A Tale of Differences”, Valeriy Z…

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SIF Folio: Why marginal gains could help Tesco beat the market

One of the techniques that’s credited for the success of the British Olympic cycling team under Sir Dave Brailsford is an approach known as the aggregation of marginal gains. The argument is that by making small gains in many areas, the end result is s…

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