What’s the Best Timeframe for Stocks?

What’s the Best Timeframe for Stocks?

July 31, 2023

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Until about a year and a half ago, I never looked at a Monthly chart.

Why would I? Why would anybody?

Monthly charts move so slowly and create so few opportunities. It’s a pointless idea reserved for big, stodgy institutions.

Then one day, on a goof, I put my “Stan Weinstein” robot on the SPY Monthly chart going back to the 1990s. (To get the details on this system, you can watch these videos. Click here and here.)

And holy moly.

Here’s the Equity Curve trading $10k of stock each time from 1995-2023:

Here’s the Report:

The numbers look great but one number in particular knocked my socks off.

Take a look at the Max Drawdown from Close to Close. It’s $432. That’s it.

Granted, it started trading in 1995, the start of the great Bull Run.

But still.

And look at the win rate: 81%.

Do you see why I was so shocked?

It made me reconsider what real trading is and made me wonder how ignorant I’ve been.

So, have I been trading the wrong way all this time?

Is Monthly really the best timeframe for longer-term trading?

We’ll find out in the next two Newsletters.

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