Quantitative Trading Based on Pattern Recognition: Returns up to 17.33% in 7 Days

Quantitative Trading

The Fundamental Package includes our algorithmic forecasts for stocks screened by fundamental criteria. Our algorithms help you find best opportunities for both long and short positions for the stocks within each fundamental screen. The stocks are selected according to five basic valuation categories:

  • P/E (price to earnings ratio)
  • PEG (price/earnings to growth ratio)
  • price-to-book ratio
  • price-to-sales ratio
  • short ratio

fundamentals
Package Name: Fundamental – Low PEG Stocks
Recommended Positions: Long
Forecast Length: 7 Days (08/14/2018 – 08/21/2018)
I Know First Average: 7.14%
Quantitative Trading

For this 7 Days forecast the algorithm had successfully predicted 9 out of 10 movements. The highest trade return came from REGI, at 17.33%. The suggested trades for ATRS and CTRL also had notable 7 Days yields of 14.06% and 10.35%, respectively. The overall average return in this Fundamental – Low PEG Stocks package was 7.14%, providing investors with a 5.69% premium over the S&P 500’s return of 1.45% during the same period.

Renewable Energy Group, Inc., incorporated on April 29, 2009, is focused on providing cleaner, lower carbon intensity products and services. The Company is a producer of biomass-based diesel in North America. Its segments include Biomass-based diesel, Services, Renewable Chemicals and Corporate and other activities. It is involved in various activities related to biomass-based diesel production, from acquiring feedstock, managing construction and operating biomass-based diesel production facilities to marketing, selling and distributing biomass-based diesel and its co-products. As of December 31, 2016, it owned and operated a network of 14 biorefineries. As of December 31, 2016, 12 biorefineries were located in the United States and two in Germany, and 13 of which produce biodiesel or renewable hydrocarbon diesel and had an aggregate nameplate production capacity of 502 million gallons per year (mmgy). As of December 31, 2016, it also operated one microbial fermentation facility in connection with its development of renewable chemicals and one feedstock processing facility. It produces its biomass-based diesel from a range of feedstocks, including inedible corn oil, used cooking oil and inedible animal fat. It also produces biomass-based diesel from virgin vegetable oils.

Algorithmic traders utilize these daily forecasts by the I Know First market prediction system as a tool to enhance portfolio performance, verify their own analysis and act on market opportunities faster. This forecast was sent to current I Know First subscribers.

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Algorithmic Stock Forecast: The table on the left is a stock forecast produced by I Know First’s algorithm. Each day, subscribers receive forecasts for six different time horizons. Note that the top 10 stocks in the 1-month forecast may be different than those in the 1-year forecast. In the included table, only the relevant stocks have been included. The boxes are arranged according to their respective signal and predictability values (see below for detailed definitions). A green box represents a positive forecast, suggesting a long position, while a red represents a negative forecast, suggesting a short position.

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