Top And Bottom Performing Stocks For Week #38
Top And Bottom Performing Stocks For Week #38
It is Sunday afternoon and that means we get to review the performance of last week’s historical top and bottom stock symbols in the S&P 500. As you may recall these symbols are the result of parsing a database containing over 50 years worth of statistical performance data. The idea is to extract the prospective top ten winners and losers of the coming week purely based on historical statistics. The result is then sorted by liquidity and any symbol that is scheduled to report earnings or pass ex-dividend is being excluded.
How To Trade Along
Although being no guarantor of success, the long and short candidates posted here each week are intended to perform along their respective historical bias. One way of trading along would be to simply create a small one-week portfolio by buying the long candidates and selling the short candidates on Monday morning shortly after the open. There are no official stops or targets and all transactions are reversed Friday afternoon right before the bell.
Results For Week # 37
The way we keep track is to record the respective relative performance of each week’s long and short portfolio in percentage points. For example CSCO rose by 3.05%, which is considered its relative performance and thus added to the long profits total. BMY however lost 0.22% and is therefore deducted from the total. It works inversely on the short side and since PFE rose by 3.7% it’s considered a loss on the short side and thus deducted from the short profits total. EFX dropped 24.55% and has been added as a winner.
Without further ado, here are the results for week #37 ending 9/15/2017:
Long Profits: T=4.24, CSCO=3.05, MSFT=1.8, VZ=3.8, KEY=7.82, SBUX=2.21, QCOM=5.14, TGT=4.7, BMY=-0.22, BBT=0.39
Long Profits Total: 32.93
Short Profits: PFE=-3.7, EFX=24.55, PPL=0.61, PCG=0.51, WEC=0.86, SHW=1.04, SNA=0.23
Short Profits Total: 24.1
Combined Profits Total: 57.03
Top 4 performing stocks for week #38
It’s expected to be a bearish week for the S&P 500, so we only found 4 long symbols for this week. If you want to see more comprehensive statistics on a particular symbol then simply click on either the chart or the symbol name which will launch its Evil Speculator Statistics Report.
