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“I am going to wait until AIM starts running before I start investing”

This is something a UK investor recently told me. I immediately thought he is certainly missing out on substantial gains elsewhere.

Let me elucidate.

This has been the performance of the AIM market in the UK, he was referring to:

5-year chart of the UK FTSE AIM 100 stock index

As you can see a phenomenal surge after the Corona crash, followed by a significant decline that has plateaued, moving forward at a sluggish pace.

There is always a bull market

The reality is, there's always a bull market ripe for investment somewhere.

For instance, if you compare the above chart to the graph below. What if you had simply transferred your investments from the UK AIM to the Japanese market?

5-year chart of the Japanese NIKKEI 225 stock index

Since July 2021, you would have gained 15% compared to the 47% plummet in comparison to AIM.

All you had to do was overcome your home country bias and invest where a market is moving up.

Look at the 200-day SMA

All you had to do to find an upward moving market is to seek out a market that is trading above its 200-day simple moving average(SMA) and explore possibilities there.

This is precisely what we do with the Quant Value and the Shareholder Yield Letter. We halt purchases if a market is below its 200-day SMA and explore alternatives for ideas.

Never get married to a market

This entails expanding your investment horizons if you primarily invest in any single market just as the investor mentioned earlier was primarily invested in AIM.

If the market is performing well, that's fantastic, but at some point, all markets start lagging behind and that's the cue to search for opportunities elsewhere.

At present, there is a significant risk of investors assuming that the S&P 500 will indefinitely be the top-performing index. It will not!

The worth of alerts

This week I was delightfully surprised when I received the following email alert:

Quant Investing stock screener alert email example

As you can see, it's a straightforward notification informing me that the financial figures of Imperial Brands, a company in my portfolio, have been updated.

This spares me the need to continuously search! I sought to ascertain the status of the shareholder yield, which has undergone substantial changes.

As I have mentioned previously, the alert feature is one of the most beneficial attributes we have recently integrated into the screener. Through it, you can set up alerts for practically all the 110 ratios and indicators available in the screener.

For example, it can notify you not only when results have been updated but also:

• When a price to earnings ratio dips below 7 for instance or
• When a dividend yield exceeds 5% or
• If a stock has declined by more than 25% since you added it to your watchlist.

As you can see, the possibilities are myriad and it saves you a great deal of time since the information is promptly dispatched to you.

The screener also features a function where you can save a screen and as new companies meet all the criteria, they get emailed to you. However, that's a topic for another email, this one is already quite lengthy.

Quant Value newsletter update

Overall, the portfolio rebounded admirably from last week’s volatility. Japanese businesses were the most outstanding performers:

• SK-Electronics +17%
• Fukuda Denshi +15%
• Nishimoto Co. +12% (Up +40.1% since last month)

Due to the aforementioned movements, in addition to the past few months, Asia, particularly Japan continues to perform remarkably well.

Subscribers are still relishing the following substantial gains:

• North America +23% (Average of 8 companies)
• Europe +19% (Average of 11 companies)
• Asia +28%(Average of 27 companies)
• Crash portfolio (2022) +37% (Average of 5 companies)

If these opportunities pique your interest, you can obtain further details here: Your Treasure Map to Europe, Asia, and North America's Hidden Gems!

Shareholder Yield Letter update

Since May when we launched the newsletter 26 ideas have collectively paid an average dividend of 1.2% and the portfolio is poised with an average return of 2% following the market's pullback last week.

Standout performers include:

• Glencore +9.5% and
• Societe Generale +6.3% .

But as you can observe, the dividends keep flowing in, making it a noteworthy portfolio for those seeking income opportunities.

As things stand today, the portfolio boasts an average historical dividend yield of 4.9% and the companies repurchased 5.6% of their stock last year. This yields an average Shareholder Yield of 10.5%!

If these are the type of companies you are interested in investing in, you can access further information here: Invest big, win bigger with our market beating large-cap strategy!

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