The Trend Asset Allocation Model is an asset allocation model that applies trend-following principles based on the inputs of global stock and commodity prices. This model has a shorter time horizon and tends to turn over about 4-6 times a year. The performance and full details of a model portfolio based on the out-of-sample signals of the Trend Model can be found here.
My inner trader uses a trading model, which is a blend of price momentum (is the Trend Model becoming more bullish, or bearish?) and overbought/oversold extremes (don't buy if the trend is overbought, and vice versa). Subscribers receive real-time alerts of model changes, and a hypothetical trading record of the email alerts is updated weekly here. The hypothetical trading record of the trading model of the real-time alerts that began in March 2016 is shown below.
The latest signals of each model are as follows:
- Ultimate market timing model: Buy equities (Last changed from “sell” on 28-Jul-2023)*
- Trend Model signal: Bullish (Last changed from “neutral” on 28-Jul-2023)*
- Trading model: Neutral (Last changed from “bullish” on 24-Jan-2024)*
Update schedule: I generally update model readings on my site on weekends. I am also on X/Twitter at @humblestudent. Subscribers receive real-time alerts of trading model changes, and a hypothetical trading record of those email alerts is shown here.
Subscribers can access the latest signal in real time here.
NVIDIA’s week
The main market focus of last week was NVIDIA. Anticipation was building ahead of the company’s earnings report and option positioning was extremely bullish. In the end, the bulls were rewarded by a blowout report. NVIDIA’s stock surged and pulled the market up with it.
However, the advance was marred by poor internals. The rally in the S&P 500 took it to the top of its Bollinger Band, but it’s rare that upper BB rides are accompanied by negative RSI divergences and poor participation. Moreover, it’s unusual to see the market rally to an all-time high with the NASDAQ Summation Index flat when it should have been a source of strength.
The full post can be found here.