We maintain several market timing models, each with differing time horizons. The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on the research outlined in our post, Building the ultimate market timing model. This model tends to generate only a handful of signals each decade.
The Trend Asset Allocation Model is an asset allocation model which applies trend following principles based on the inputs of global stock and commodity price. This model has a shorter time horizon and tends to turn over about 4-6 times a year. In essence, it seeks to answer the question, "Is the trend in the global economy expansion (bullish) or contraction (bearish)?"
My inner trader uses a trading model, which is a blend of price momentum (is the Trend Model becoming more bullish, or bearish?) and overbought/oversold extremes (don't buy if the trend is overbought, and vice versa). Subscribers receive real-time alerts of model changes, and a hypothetical trading record of the those email alerts are updated weekly here. The hypothetical trading record of the trading model of the real-time alerts that began in March 2016 is shown below.
The latest signals of each model are as follows:
- Ultimate market timing model: Sell equities*
- Trend Model signal: Neutral*
- Trading model: Bearish*
Update schedule: I generally update model readings on my site on weekends and tweet mid-week observations at @humblestudent. Subscribers receive real-time alerts of trading model changes, and a hypothetical trading record of the those email alerts is shown here.
Subscribers can access the latest signal in real-time here.
False negatives?
I have been writing about bearish setups for several weeks. In particular, risk appetite indicates have been sounding warnings. For example, the ratio of equal weighted consumer discretionary to consumer staples stocks, equal weighted to minimize the dominant weight of AMZN in the consumer discretionary sector, have been trading sideways and not buying into the equity rally.
As well, credit market risk appetite, as measured by the relative performance of high yield (junk) bonds and leveraged loans to their duration equivalent Treasuries, are also not buying into the equity risk-on narrative.
The divergence between the VIX Index and the TED spread, which is one of the credit market's indication of risk appetite, is another worrisome sign.
In the short run, none of this matters. Here is what traders should really be paying attention to.
The full post can be found here.
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