The stock market is brutally hard to beat, and yet some strategies do it every single month, take a look at the returns and decide for yourself whether this is worth your attention
In 1973, economist Burton Malkiel wrote in A Random Walk Down Wall Street that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper could pick a portfolio that performs just as well as one carefully chosen by experts, humbling words that turned out to be right for the vast majority of investors who tried to outsmart the market and failed.
But researchers never stopped looking, and what they found is that while the market is brutally efficient it is not perfectly efficient, there are patterns in financial data, real measurable anomalies in how stock prices move, that repeat themselves with enough consistency to outperform. Not one pattern, several:
These patterns persist not because markets are broken but because markets are made of people, and people are predictable in their irrationality.
In 2020 Kewei Hou, Chen Xue and Lu Zhang, researchers at The Ohio State University, published a paper in The Review of Financial Studies called Replicating Anomalies in which they put 452 of these published patterns through the most rigorous statistical testing available and 65% failed to hold up, the ones that survived are documented, replicated and real.
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