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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺ SILVER
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Subject: Re: question for Jim
Date: 03/01/25 9:43 AM
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Here is the post I have from old MI board by Jim (5/24/2020):
"This is a retirement portfolio kind of screen: LargeCapCash.
The goal is a screen which is as safe as the S&P 500 but with the hope of somewhat higher returns over the long run...


FYI, I'm running this, pretty much as described. 2 month trading cycle, top 40 hold-till-drop at 45. The version that requires a dividend. It forms most of the "boring" portion of my roughly 70/30 boring/aggressive quant portfolio. Double digit IRR, but that hasn't exactly been hard lately. I haven't been running it long enough to say whether it provides an advantage; the net portfolio performance (after fees, commissions, 0.58%/year drag from tax on dividends, and a small cash drag) is so close to the S&P equal weight total return, the most suitable benchmark for it, that there is as yet no evidence of which is better.

I will probably move the aggressive portion to cash when it looks like the bull market is no longer evident.

Jim
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