In a market populated mostly with mediocre opportunities and led by a small number of high performers, we use extensive filtering to attempt to identify lesser-known or lesser-followed securities that also stand out from the crowd.
Every week we review every ETF, every other security on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and every mutual fund through a simple, short-term, two-factor relative performance filter supplemented by some trend and technical data.
The basic filter asks whether the security has price performance superior to Treasury Bills over one month, three months, six months, and 12