RTGs:
Tiny Titans 101
Objective
This folio offers investors the ability to easily add market capitalization based diversification to their investments. By their nature, micro-cap stocks are more volatile than large-cap stocks, so the risk and the potential reward are both greater as well.
In addition to offering capitalization-based diversification, this strategy seeks to out-perform the micro-cap stock universe by utilizing both value and momentum criteria, as well as the ability to move to cash when micro-cap markets are unfavorable.
A more detailed discussion of Tiny Titans stock screening methodology is available at StockScreening101.com.
Strategy
Tiny Titans 101 is an aggressive, micro-cap strategy derived from the strategy described by James P. O’Shaughnessy in his book, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow.
Each month, StockScreening101 applies a series of screening criteria to select the best scoring 25 stocks to include in this folio. If fewer than 25 stocks pass the screening, then the remaining allocation is put into cash.
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Steps to Create This Folio
- U.S. exchange listed micro-cap stocks, defined here as market capitalization less than $400 million, are screened using a price/sales component and a momentum component. Each passing stock must have an average minimum daily trading liquidity of $2 million USD.
- The best scoring 25 stocks are then selected for the folio and equally weighted at 4% each.
- No stock will have an initial weighting of more than 4%. If fewer than 25 stocks pass the screen, the remaining percentage will be allocated to cash.
- If market conditions are adverse to micro-cap investing, the folio can move to 100% cash or similar instruments.
Number of Securities
There are generally 25 or fewer securities in the folio.
Update Frequency
Monthly.
If the characteristics of the Folio have changed substantially, the securities included may change. Also, corporate actions, such as a merger, or other events may cause changes to the securities held at any time. Your returns may deviate significantly from the values displayed here, due to many factors, including how long after a folio has been updated that you place orders to update your holdings. RTGs are updated using market data from multiple sources including Zacks Investment Research ( www.zacks.com ), International Data Corporation (IDC) ( www.idc.com ), and other suppliers.