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Re: Reasonable Runaways Historic Data



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At 02:12 PM 1/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I am looking to do some back testing  on  James O'Shaughnessy's
>Reasonable Runaways long term stock strategy which is covered in his
>recent book "How to Retire Rich".
>The stock selection criteria are as follows:
>1.  Market Cap > $150 million
>2.  Price - Sales Ratio < 1
>3.  Buy the 25 to 50 stocks from 1 and 2 above that have the best one
>year price appreciation.
>4.  Rerun the selection process once a year.
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>This is a buy and hold strategy. I want to add a equity curve based
>switch to this simple system.  I am having trouble finding historic data
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>for market cap and the price to sales ratio. One set of data per year
>would be acceptable. Any suggestions on where to find this historic data
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>for US stocks.
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>Matt Samojeden
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