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The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for November 2016

Special Topic: IRA Investments using QuantTrader, our Backtest Software Logical Invest Investment Outlook November 2016 Our top year-to-date strategies: The Maximum Yield strategy with 32.61% return. The Leveraged Universal strategy with 21.42% return.   The World Top 4 with 17.66% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 5.87%, year-to-date. Market comment: Recent surveys show that fund managers have increased cash positions1 while outflows from equity funds are at historically high levels2. From a contrarian point of view this could be considered market positive. There … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for December 2016

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Special Topic: IRA investment using QuantTrader Logical Invest Investment Outlook December 2016 Our top year-to-date strategies: The Maximum Yield strategy with 30.27% return. The Leveraged Universal strategy with 17.73% return.   The NASDAQ 100 strategy with 15.19% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 9.77%, year-to-date. NEWS: Enhancement of the Treasury hedge in our strategies (link).   Market comment: Presidents change, markets change and so do we. As our subscribers know well, Treasuries have been a cornerstone of our strategies. For the last few months many investors … Read more

Logical-Invest monthly update January 2017 – Topic 401k Investments

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Special topic this month: 401k Investments Logical Invest Investment Outlook January 2017 Our top 2016 strategies: The Maximum Yield strategy with 29.92% return. The Leveraged Universal strategy with 22.33% return.   The NASDAQ 100 strategy with 21.54% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 12.00%. Market comment: To put 2016 in perspective, we must go back to 2015 and remind ourselves how the rising dollar environment affected diversified investors. Most asset classes suffered through 2015. The S&P 500 stayed flat, long term Treasuries lost 2%, gold lost … Read more

Portfolio Builder Update January 2017

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Happy new year –and let´s start it set-up for success with some Markowitz Modern Portfolio Theory! As previously announced, we´re updating our Portfolio Builder Optimization periodically, both in the Online and Offline Version. Updated Portfolio Builder Optimization for 2017 employing Markowitz Modern Portfolio Theory Why that? Recall the Portfolio Builder is using a Markowitz Modern Portfolio Theory approach, that is, we´re using past returns, volatilities and co-variances to determine an optimum fixed-weight allocation among our different … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for February 2017 – Topic 401k Strategies

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Our special topic this month are 401k Strategies Logical Invest Investment Outlook February 2017 Our top 2017 strategies: The Maximum Yield strategy with 10.29% return. The  NASDAQ 100 strategy with 9.88% return.   The Leveraged Universal strategy with 3.96% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 1.79%. Market comment: 2017 started up as a different type of year. Not just in politics. Despite the unprecedented political uncertainty, volatility in the SP500 dived this month causing our volatility harvesting strategy, Maximum Yield, to return more than 10% in just … Read more

Top Performing ETFs Strategies – Portfolio Idea

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In the follow up to our webinar about how to compose top performing ETFs strategies among the QuantTrader community last weekend, we received many interesting questions and ideas to follow up. One question in particular I´d like to share in a post, as it involves all our “All Strategies” subscribers. John L. asks: “Using a simple meta strategy by choosing the top two strategies from the previous month (from the monthly newsletter), and investing in … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for March 2017

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook March 2017 Our top 2017 strategies, year-to-date: The Maximum Yield strategy with 14.90% return.  The Leveraged Universal strategy with 13.97% return. The  NASDAQ 100 strategy with 11.28% return.  SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 5.79%. News:  Our in-depth  2-hour QUANTtrader webinar, with Frank Grossmann. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our strategies. We are testing a new U.S. Sector-based strategy that should be available in the coming months.   Market comment: The S&P 500 is reaching new all time highs, currently at +10% from it’s … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for April 2017

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook April 2017 Our top 2017 investment strategies, year-to-date: The Maximum Yield strategy with 21.58% return. The  NASDAQ 100 strategy with 15.00% return.   The Leveraged Universal strategy with 13.02% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 5.92%. News: Try our QUANTtrader software with our 30-day free trial. There is no better way to understand how our strategies work. Join our new QUANTtrader forum were users dare adjust the strategies and share new ones! Check our new European section.  Our in-depth 2-hour QUANTtrader webinar, with Frank Grossmann. Get a behind-the-scenes … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for May 2017

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook May 2017 Our top 2017 investment strategies, year-to-date: The Maximum Yield strategy with 25.75% return. The  NASDAQ 100 strategy with 18.26% return.   The Leveraged Universal strategy with 16.86% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 6.97%. News: Our new U.S. Sector Rotation strategy is live (and for a limited time, free!). Unlike what you may have seen before, this strategy consists of 5 sub-strategies tracking sector momentum, mean reversion and relative under-performance to create a variable-beta play on the U.S. market. And … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for June 2017

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook June 2017 Our top 2017 investment strategies, year-to-date: The Maximum Yield strategy with 29.66% return. The Leveraged Universal strategy with 21.89% return.   The NASDAQ 100 strategy with 21.80% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 8.48%. News: Our brand new U.S. Sector Rotation made its live debut with a +2.53% return for the month. You can subscribe for free. Market comment: Both the U.S. equity and the U.S. bond markets were positive for May. SPY (S&P 500 ETF) added +1.41% and TLT (30-Year Treasury ETF) … Read more