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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: gritton ✸  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: "Dozens" Screens
Date: 10/24/25 2:17 PM
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Every month, you sell the stock you bought a year ago. Run your screen for the current month, and replace that stock with the highest-ranking stock you don't already own. If it's the same stock, of course you just hold on to it. It can get out of balance, and how you go about fixing that is outside the simple definition.

In a taxable account, you can fiddle with the timing, and sell losers at 364 days and winners at 366 days.

For starters, you can just buy the top 12 in the screen, and arbitrarily pick the first year's sales with something like lowest rank, or just pick losers (taxable account again). Or you could backtest it a few years, and start with what would have been the steady-state holdings from that.
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