April 28, 2026 I wrote “Quantifying the Kindling” in mid March, after hearing Lloyd Blankfein on a podcast comparing market conditions to an abundance of kindling on a forest floor. I knew then that it was a precursor to something more comprehensive I wanted to share on the subject of macro risk, which is the […]
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4/13/2026 Strong March 2026 filter performance driven by V-Score, P/E and EUB Return criteria If purchased at the closing price of 3/13/26, the average of the 9 tickers in our 3/12/2026 close-based filter returned 5.16% through the 4/10/2026 close. This compares well with both the SPY, with a price return of 2.59% for the same period, and
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March 18, 2026 I heard former Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, say the following on Preet Bharara’s “Stay Tuned with Preet” podcast this last weekend: ““We’ve just gotten through a market with equities on record high levels with a very, very favorable financing environment and a lot still hasn’t been sold, really? So is it
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3/12/2026 Weak February 2026 performance driven by P/E Ratio and EUB Return criteria If purchased at the closing price of 2/11/26, the average of the 11 tickers in our 2/10/2026 close-based filter returned -10.93% through the 3/12/2026 close. This compares poorly with both the SPY, with a price return of -3.74% for the same period, and
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March 2, 2026 What do the 12 strategies we developed this summer and blogged about here say as we head into March 2026? Before we share that let us first note that the strategies utilize volatility constraints ranging from 10% to 20%, and ticker concentration constraints ranging from 3% to 10%. VecViz has no idea where your
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Considering GAF-Trained CNNs in relation to and in combination with VecViz’s Vector Model and V-Score Our thanks to Tyler (Foster) Shelbert for his contributions to this post. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can excel at time series forecasting As a form of “Deep Learning”, CNNs can automatically extract complex, non-linear features from raw data without manual
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2/11/2026 Strong January 2026 performance driven by P/E Ratio and EDB Return criteria If purchased at the closing price of 1/13/261, the average of the 19 tickers in our 1/12/ 2026 close-based OpenBB filter returned +5.91% through the 2/10/26 close. This compares very favorably with both the SPY, with a price return of -0.24% for the same
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2/2/2026 Our thanks to Jessie Li for her assistance with key elements of the analysis discussed below. TL/DR: They do, despite the fact that volume is not a direct input to any VecViz model. More explicit consideration of volume leads to improvements in baseline VecViz analytic performance, particularly for the V-Score. Volume is a well-regarded
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We are always wary of the potential for decay in the performance of VecViz’s suite of machine learning-based analytics, especially since we have done zero retraining. Thus, we are somewhat surprised that 2025 was perhaps the strongest consecutive 12 months for individual metric performance.in VecViz’s nearly four year out of sample performance period, Here we
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Strong December 2025 performance driven by P/E Ratio and V-Score criteria If purchased at the closing price of 12/10/25, the average of the 19 tickers in our 12/9/ 2025 close-based OpenBB filter returned 7.43% through the 1/12/26 close. This compares favorably with both the SPY, with a price return of 1.10% for the same period,
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