SPY - The trend is your friend -- what worked in September

Studies have shown that one of the best predictors of stock price performance is recent performance. In other words, what worked recently is most likely to keep working. So what worked in September? By Style: Value characteristics reasserted their control over the market in September, continuing the trend seen for most of the year. Stocks with high leverage also performed well, reversing some of last month's weak showing.  This makes sense when you look at the sectors, as energy companies, which typically employ high leverage, massively outperformed the other 10 S&P 500 (SP500) sectors. The worst performing strategy centered around owning the largest companies and being short the smallest companies. Among the attributes in value that outperformed, stocks that screened well on a ratio of assets to price were among the best, alongside those that screened well on a ratio of 5 year relative forward earnings estimates/price. Should you anticipate what

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The trend is your friend -- what worked in September