I've never believed in the merits of a momentum investing strategy, but what about an anti-momentum strategy? So I hypothesized the following: "During periods of high market volatility among sectors, the best performing sectors in the past six months will end up having the worst forward six-month returns, and vice versa." Read on to find out if I'm right!
Read MoreWith all the negativity in the world today, there is one distinct group of people who always see the glass as half full: equity analysts. I’ve written about equity analysts several times before and warned against the dangers of relying on their price targets when making investment decisions, but with the recent volatility (mostly downwards) in stock prices, I feel it’s worth a more up-to-date analysis to see just how optimistic they are that things will turn out rosy in the near term.
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