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This book gives an excellent example of several simple things you can do to create a system for managing your portfolio.
It amazes me how accurate his ideas still are. I purchased this book because the AAII 8 year study of different strategies showed Zwieg's returning 1, This study got my attention. Zweig is a rare mix, he was previously a finance professor, He holds many degrees in finance.
He is a successful trader in his own right. He is the chairman of a very successful closed end fund and a mutual fund, and publishes one of the most successful newsletters the Zwieg Forecast.
His super model for stock market timing focuses in on timiming for entries and exits based on monetary policy and market momentum. He uses the prime rate, Fed rate, and installment debt as factors to judge the markets performance.
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He also uses market momentum indicators like advance decline ratios being greter than 2 to 1, up volume being at a ratio. He puts these factors together to create a point valued timing system that was close to perfect during the past 30 years predicting the trend. He shows the performance of each factor in real historical data.
Which is great advice for investors. I am a stock trader so I play the market differently, but use this in my K. He also does the best job I have seen explaining short selling and how it is the same amount of risk as going long. Excellent book I put it at the top of the list in my library of 75 trading books. Excellent book with some good methods of taking the market temperature that were totally new to me.
And that's after having read at least books out there on methods to succeed in trading. This one is of a different breed.
This is a classic and is the definitve work even up to this date on the effects of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates on the stock market. Get to Know Us.
Amazon Web Services Goodreads Shopbop. Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies. An increase in Discount rate is bearish.
A hike in either one receives minus one point. The negative point remains for 6 months, after which it becomes "stale" and is discarded. Moves by the Fed toward easing have a greater positive impact on stock prices than the negative effect created by tightening. An initial cut in either of the two tools, wipes out any negative points that have been accumulated.
It also kicks in 2 positive points. After 6 months of staleness, one point is taken away.
I pulled the following table from the Federal Reserve Board website on January 10, It looks as though the score would now be a The indicator appears to be in "extremely bearish" mode. The first hike was on June 30, On August 10, , the indicator became moderately bearish.
Never Miss A Story! My Book Reviews --! His professor-like style is a refreshing break from the self-promotional style of most investment gurus who are solely concerned with building their personal brand in order to sell more books. Get to Know Us. Refresh and try again. Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies.
On September 21, , the indicator became extremely bearish. Yet, when you look at the chart of the DJI since September 21, , it is yet to tell us a bearish picture.