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Category Archives: Market Ratio
NLO Market Indicator–November 10, 2022
The market had one of the largest daily gain since 2020 today with the S&P rising 5.5% and the Nasdaq jumping 7.3%. Such action pushed S&P 500 above the most recent high of 3,900 in late October. Below is the current view of our Dow Theory Indicator and NLO Market Score ®. Continue reading
NLO Market Indicator–September 16, 2022
The market fell another 5.8% this past week and has lost over 9% in a month. Continue reading
The Market Ratio: December 2020
Since our last posting on the Market Ratio on August 13, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased approximately +7.40%.
However, this wasn’t the payoff based on our work of August 13, 2020. As seen below, the payoff has been a gain of nearly 3x what the DJIA had achieved in the same period. Continue reading
The Market Ratio
In doing some research, we came across a ratio that we thought was very interesting. For now, we’ll call it the Market Ratio. For us, the Market Ratio says everything that encompasses the goal of generating returns that are beyond that of the S&P 500 Index. The Market Ratio is charted below from September 10, 1987 to August 7, 2020.
As seen below, the compounded annual growth rate generated by using the Market Ratio over the entire period in question is +14.28% for the LEADER strategy versus using the LAGGARD strategy at +1.66% and compared to the S&P 500 index compounded annual growth rate of 10.63%.
Below we detail the specifics which, on paper, seem to generate these exceptional returns. Continue reading