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In 2011, FT Cloud started as solely a momentum trading engine, but gradually expanded to incorporate more general tools such as the spreadsheet, chart, and family tree. Today’s posts brings us back to the original concept, with a slight twist. Gary Antonacci wrote the book Dual Momentum Investing (http://a.co/bgR4Jx8) and it covers the ins and […]
Read MoreNew Stocks and Stocks Families out Today
We’re constantly adding and removing new tickers to the database we get user requests, but once a quarter we do a total refresh of the stocks database and families. We’re now including many large cap international companies from the OTC markets and all stocks listed on the NASDAQ and NYSE. For FT Cloud users, use […]
Read MoreChange Chart Color Bar Colors
If your printing charts, doing a presentation, or just want to mix things up, changing the color of the chart tickers is easy. Change color bar color Right click the name of the ticker/ ticker input you wan to change. Select “change color” Next, select the color from the pallet and the window will auto […]
Read MoreSmart Beta and High Yield
We’re highlighting smart beta and actively managed ETFs again this week. While still a small portion of the overall market (see the attached article), increased market volatility and rising interest rates are bringing investor interest back to active. For now, mostly in bond products, but re: the attached article, international and emerging market products are […]
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Mar, 26, 2018
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How to Choose an Benchmark – Market Indexes
We get lots of questions about indexes, specifically what are the appropriate indexes to use on the spreadsheet benchmark field. The short answer is… for US Equities use an US equity benchmark (SP-DA – S&P 500 div adjusted) and bonds use a bond benchmark (AGG-X – Barclays Aggregate Bond Ix) . But, if you’re doing […]
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- Mar, 19, 2018
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A New Twists on Smart Beta
Smart beta is getting a lot of attention from the financial press and new products are coming to market daily. FastTrack is adding 20-30 a month. A great quote from the linked article speaks to the scale: “Investors handed $184 billion to smart beta ETFs from 2015 to 2017 while pulling $308 billion from equity […]
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- Mar, 13, 2018
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Is Passive Investing Actually Active?
Interesting article on the development of passive investment products. “There are now so many indexes that putting your money in an index-tracking fund is a move requiring an active decision…” So, even largely passive strategies require some judgement or active management. There’s over 3 million indexes and only 3,000 investable stocks in the US. So, […]
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- Mar, 05, 2018
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Data Quality – Screening Funds and ETFs
Here’s a great illustration of why you need dividend adjustments when analyzing funds and ETFs. QLENX (a lower risk AQR managed long short fund) has been popular with FastTrackers for a few years and it would be totally off your radar if you’re using Yahoo, CNBC, Fidelity, or any number of other free data outfits […]
Read MoreHow to invest in Artificial Intelligence
There’s lots of buzz surrounding AI (artificial intelligence). It’s changing the world as we know it and also is showing strong out performance over the past year. Here’s a list of AI related names in the FastTrack database. The charts below shows the relative strength chart vs SPY of the two most popular ETFs, BOTZ […]
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What’s in the FastTrack Stocks Database?
We’ve posted in the past about the decreasing number of investible stocks in the US (https://investorsfasttrack.com/is-passive-active/). Per the post, there’s about 3,000 investible companies listed in the US. But, FastTrack has approximately 4,500 stocks in the database. What makes up the difference? First, FastTrack tries to include every stock listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ […]