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Chicago, IL – October 15, 2019 - Stocks in this week’s article are Royal Gold, Inc. (RGLD - Free Report) , Shake Shack Inc. (SHAK - Free Report) and Taylor Morrison Home Corp. (TMHC - Free Report) .

3 Stocks with Momentum Anomalies to Boost Portfolio Returns

The market is focused (and rightfully so) on global trade developments amid the continuing tariff war between the world’s two largest economies. Last Friday, President Trump announced that the first phase of a deal with China had been agreed upon. The partial settlement, which includes agriculture, currency and some aspects of intellectual property protections, is considered to be the first step to end the 15-month old tussle.

The United States will delay its planned tariff hike on $250 billion of Chinese imports, supposed to take effect on Oct 15. Meanwhile, additional 15% of tariffs on all Chinese goods could still start on Dec 15 unless the second phase is settled upon. Undoubtedly, the development is a positive sign to the markets, in the sense that escalation is temporarily halted.

For long-term investors, reacting emotionally to volatile trends can be more damaging to a portfolio’s performance than the downturn itself, given the prevailing circumstances. By adhering to a well-thought-out investment plan, investors may be better off during periods of short-term uncertainty. When value or growth investing fails to fetch sustained profits, one should explore another time-tested winning strategy that simply bets on the frontrunner stocks. This is known as momentum investing.

At the core, momentum investing is buying high, selling higher. It is based on the idea that once a stock establishes a trend, it is more likely to continue in that direction. There’s a whole list of behavioral biases that most investors exhibit. For instance, there are investors who are anxious about booking losses and hence, hold on to losing stocks for too long, hopeful of a rebound in prices. On the other hand, a few investors sell their winners way too early. Momentum investing is one of the best strategies to avoid making such mistakes.

Momentum strategy works because investors initially tend to underreact to news, events or data releases. However, once things become clear, they tend to go with the flow and overreact, causing dramatic price reactions.

So, basically, it’s a way to profit from the general human tendency to extrapolate current trends into the future. Momentum investing is, thus, based on that gap in time which exists before the mean reversion occurs i.e. before prices become rational again.

Momentum strategies have been known to be alpha-generative over a long period of time and across market stages. So obviously, this strategy is quite tricky to be implemented as detecting these trends well ahead of time is no child’s play.

Here, we have created a strategy that will help investors get in on these fast movers when there is a short-term pullback in price, and rake in handsome gains.

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