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[sam]

I'm confused. Is Timer Digest actually reporting that only 2 timers in the last 6 month beat the market....and everyone else is tied with the market as buy-and-hold with the S&P?? What kind of market tmiing is that? *Can someone interpret this for me?

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Edited by sam, 04 March 2005 - 09:53 AM.

[Modest Trader]

Wasn't Stephen Leeb indicted a year or so ago for fraud?

[sam]

I never heard anything about that. I thought he was "The Man" in writing books about how to prevent fraud... But serriously, back to the T.D. rankings....what's the big deal here? These aren't bragging rights, it seems rather pathetic.

Edited by sam, 04 March 2005 - 10:03 AM.

[TTHQ Staff]

Many of these traders ranked by Timer Digest have been long throughout the time period being measured. That means they've tied the S&P. They're not beating it. So about 30+ traders are all tied for 3rd place. Not much of a ranking system if you ask me.

[darnelds]

I'm confused.

Is Timer Digest actually reporting that only 2 timers in the last 6 month beat the market....and everyone else is tied with the market as buy-and-hold with the S&P?? What kind of market tmiing is that? 

*Can someone interpret this for me?

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A score of 100 equals the return on the S&P 500, so a score of 110 beat the S&P 500 by 10%.

[sam]

I'm confused.

Is Timer Digest actually reporting that only 2 timers in the last 6 month beat the market....and everyone else is tied with the market as buy-and-hold with the S&P?? What kind of market tmiing is that? 

*Can someone interpret this for me?

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A score of 100 equals the return on the S&P 500, so a score of 110 beat the S&P 500 by 10%.

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I think understand the SCORE, what I don't get is Timer Digest. I mean just how many guys are they tracking that only 2 out of (500? 600?) actually BEAT the market? It seems really rather miserable. What this means to me is: If you were ranked by TD, you are 99.9% likey to have NOT beaten the market, right? I don;t know about you, but by just playing the odds, I wouldn't want to be ranked by them Seems like a death sentence.

btw: if the SPX = 100, why was it given a score of 110.22? is T.D. saying the S&P beat itself by 10.22%????

Does anyone have updated rakings?