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Market Update 17/10/13 [PUBLIC]

By RecessionALERT on October 17, 2013 in Reflections

The political standoff associated with the debt ceiling and government shutdown has made its impact felt the last 3 weeks on the weekly leading data. Two out of the 5 main components of the WLInr are now firmly planted in recession warning territory with some 30% of all underlying 50 weekly time series also camped […]

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Market Timing Strategies – putting it all together

By RecessionALERT on October 4, 2013 in Reflections

We offer a number of timing strategies for the SP-500 as described below: 1.Long-term investment models These are primarily focused on funds-grade long-term investing models such as the Recession Forecasting Ensemble (RFE) and the Composite Market Health Index (CMHI). These are high confidence, infrequent traders. They attempt to capture as much upside of the market […]

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Zweig Breadth Thrust – The RecessionALERT Redux

By RecessionALERT on October 1, 2013 in Research Papers

Martin Zweig was an American stock investor, investment adviser, and financial analyst. According to Forbes Magazine, he was renowned for his “eccentric and lavish lifestyle” as well as having had the most expensive residence in the United States at the time, atop The Pierre on Fifth avenue in Manhattan. He was most well known for […]

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