I just ran across a book at the bookstore, The
Guru Investor, which explains the screening criteria used in a few of the AAII
screens. It's the big name ones like Graham, Zweig, and O'Shaughnessy. It has
both back test and historical track records for some of the methods.
Interesting.
Super
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
superfragalist <no_reply@xxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, I've back tested some of the AAII screens, but my results are based
on my style of trading, not yours. Like the VL stocks, AAII provides
performance history numbers based on their method of trading, so there is
history to look at.
>
> VL stocks are core stocks. VL only analyzes around 1600 to 1700 stocks out
of the whole market to come up with the T100.
>
> Many of the AAII screens are low volume small cap stocks, which are hard
to trade. But some traders prefer small caps with low volume. Many of the
screens produce only 3 or 4 stocks per months. Some of the screens have books
written about them so the logic and historical testing on those is extensive.
>
> While I like AAII screens overall, it takes a lot more time to find the
stocks with the best probability of success from their many screens.
>
> If you have an account with Fidelity you can buy Value Line at a
significant discount.
>
> Trading from any list of prescreened stocks that have a long track record
of success will improve the trading performance of many systems, so using AAII
for candidates is likely to produce better results than using some kind of TA
screener.
>
> Super
>
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"metastkuser" <andysmith_999@> wrote:
> >
> > Super, have you backtested any of the Stock Investor Pros screens
from AAII? I have SIPro and don't want to run out and buy VL just yet...
> >
> >
> > --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
superfragalist <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Very few people on here know anything about those. Yes, they
work. They always do.
> > >
> > > Super
> > >
> >
>
