Our Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio has a total return of +207.5 compared to the S&P 500's +14.5% return, backtested from March 14, 2003 through October 30, 2008. That means we performed over FOURTEEN TIMES better than the market!
Our Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio has a CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of 22%. That means our YEARLY average return has outperformed the S&P 500's cumulative five year return!
Make Money By Following Those Who DO Make Money!
In any given year, 80% to 95% of money managers don't beat the market.
The good news is that this means some managers DO beat the market, and a select few do it consistently, year after year!
At The Spear Report we combine the screens of these world-class investors to create one Master Screen of astonishing power. We call it the Consensus PoWeR screen (PWR).
PWR stands for "performance-weighted rank" and you can't get it anywhere else but The Spear Report.
You see, we systematically weight the recommendations of each advisor according to that advisor's actual, objectively measured, real-life performance! This revolutionary idea is patent pending, so it's only available through The Spear Report.
Wouldn't you want to weight the recommendation of a top-performing analyst more heavily than the recommendation of a "kiss-of-death" analyst? Of course you would. And if you knew the performance of each analyst, you'd instinctively weight their recommendations according to their performance in a very general sense. Who doesn't take Warren Buffet's recommendations a little more seriously than that broker who calls you at dinner time with another "hot tip"? That's just common sense.
What we've done at The Spear Report is to quantify this instinctive process to create an objective, scientific system for the first time ever.
This is true independent research about all those who claim to be independent researchers! We tell you who to listen to, and much more; we tell you exactly how much to listen because we know how many analysts with how much performance are recommending each stock right now!!
Simply put, our research shows that the more good sources recommend a stock, the more likely the stock will perform well. It's logical to expect those stocks would outperform the market because of both investor recognition and the proven performance of the sources making the recommendations.
What's going on inside a company that can pass six of the toughest stock-picking screens in the world at the same time?
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Our Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio
Now you're thinking, "How can this system work so well?" You're skeptical.
Our Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio requires that a stock have four recommendations from among the 60+ AAII computer quant systems, AND that each of the recommending systems be beating the market in the recent period. (What period that is exactly, we're keeping to ourselves.) Theoretically, each of the stocks in the model could be recommended by a different set of at least four of AAII's screens, as long as each screen is beating the market. Note: the stocks selected by this model do not have to have high relative strength, that is, they do not have to be beating the market recently. Only the sources recommending them have to be beating the market, so this is not a traditional "relative strength" screen that just picks stocks because they're going up. Only ten stocks are allowed in the list each week. If more than ten stocks are selected by our screen, only the top 10 by our Consensus NowPWR rank are selected for the Model.
The model is rebalanced weekly. If the model picks no stocks for a given week, the previous week's selections are held for one additional week. A second week of no picks puts the model in cash. The performance indicated is backtested from 3/14/03 through 12/31/07 and is real-time since then through the most recent Friday. Performance does not include transaction costs.
We carefully monitor our own performance, so we can give you REAL PERFORMANCE NUMBERS, not hype, as proof that Consensus works. How do we measure our performance? Our recommendations are published by mid-afternoon on Friday (ET) so you can trade that day. We use the closing price on Friday to measure our performance. You can't get any more fair than that!
Long-term Performance
Here's the ACTUAL return of the Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio, backtested from March 14, 2003 through the close on October 30, 2008: Here's the ACTUAL return of the Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio, backtested from March 14, 2003 through the close on October 30, 2008:
| Dow: |
+16.8% |
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| S&P: | +14.5% |
| Spear Report: | +207.5% |
Year-to-Date Report Card
How about our short-term performance? From January 4, 2008 through the close on October 30, 2008, the Best 4 Quants Model Portfolio has more than quadruple the performance of the S&P!
| Dow: |
-28.3% |
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| S&P: | -32.4% |
| Spear Report: | -20.8% |
With The Spear Report, you get performance from every aspect of our publication.
High quality market analysis, high-performing Buy List; and "sleeper stocks" that we profile every week in the editorial section of the newsletter. When you start with a list of the top stocks from the world's top stock pickers, you're already starting at the top.
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