I Know First Reviews

On September 4th, 2016, our Labor Day Weekend special edition newsletter was sent out to all our I Know First subscriber, which can be found here. Below, find the I Know First Reviews, highlighting the algorithm’s performance for this past week. This special edition, includes as well an exclusive interview by Euro Money, featuring both co-founders of I Know First, Yaron Golgher (CEO) and Dr. Roitman (CTO).

I Know First sends a weekly newsletter every Sunday to all the I Know First subscribers, highlighting the past week’s performance in all the covered financial markets, i.e. equity positions, currencies, and commodities. Additionally, the weekly newsletter includes analysis and updated news reports regarding prominent firms such as well Apple, Yahoo, Baidu, and more. The I Know First algorithm maintains a bullish stance of the firms analyzed, and our subscribers are able to utilize these tools for their investment strategies. The in-depth analysis is provided by the I Know First financial analysts, who are often times as well top rated authors for prominent financial sites such as Seeking Alpha.

In general, the algorithm is made up of The system is a predictive stock forecast algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with elements of Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms incorporated in it. This means the algorithm is able to create, modify, and delete relationships between different financial assets. Based on the relationships and the latest market data, the algorithm calculates its forecasts. Since the algorithm learns from its previous forecasts and is continuously adapting the relationships, it adapts quickly to changing market situations.

For a more detailed explanation, regarding the algorithm, click here.

As highlighted in the newsletter, our subscribers had seen superb returns, whether long-term or short-term. Our investors are able to tackle the market head on with all its recent uncertainties, and achieve premiums well over those offered by institutional and classic fund managers. For example, our Transportation Stocks package, from June 1st, 2016 to September 1st, 2016, had seen returns as high as 203.26%, over 4x a return on investment. The package as well had an overall average return of 35.28%, providing investors with a 31.76% premium over the S&P500’s return of 3.52% during the same period.

Moreover, in our Fundamental package, from July 26th, 2016 to August 26th, the algorithm was able to predict excellent returns as high as 87%, with an overall 1 month average return of almost 30%.

Every week the top performing financial instruments are highlighted, as shown below from this past week’s newsletter.

1. The Week’s Top Performers: 229% In 90 Days
This week, I Know First’s strongest-performance stocks came from the Brazil Stock, Fundamental, and Stocks Under 10 Dollars packages. The highest returning stock was GOL from the Brazil Stocks package with an incredible 229.83% in only 3 months. Other stocks that had significant returns were CWEI and GGB with 87.24% and 85.88%. The Highest overall average return was 63.61%, from the Brazil Stock package. Additional high average returns for these forecasts were 29.51%, and 9.21%, respectively. These easily outperformed the S&P 500’s average returns of 3.84%, 0.03%, and -0.17%

2. Greatest 3-Month Returns:
In the 3-month time horizon, the most impressive returns came from theTransportation, Basic Industry, and Fundamental packages. This stock returned 203.26% in just 3 months . Other strong returns came from GGB, ARMH, and CPA with 80.36%, 54.33%, and 49.87%. The averages for these forecasts were 35.28%, 32.12%, and 26.30%, which significantly outperformed the S&P 500’s 3.52%, 3.87% and 3.42%.

3. Month-Long Returns All Average Over 10%:
The greatest 30-day long forecasts were from the Risk-Conscious, Stocks Under 10 Dollars, and Transportation Stocks packages. The greatest return came from CWEI with 83.83% in both the Risk-Conscious package. OCN and BVX increased significantly as well with 70.30% and 65.13%, both from the Stocks Under 10 Dollars package. The I Know First averages were 16.71%, 13.78%, and 10.59% within 7 days as opposed to the weak S&P 500’s returns of 0.48%, 1.06%, and -0.12%.

4. Excellent 14-Day Returns
In the last 14 days, the greatest growth came from these packages: Insurance Companies and Small Cap Stocks. The largest increase came from a stock in the Insurance Companies package with 34.39%. OCN and HWAY also returned a strong16.39% and 15.61%. These forecasts averaged 7.04% and 6.13% which beat out the S&P 500’s -0.17% and -0.33%.

5. 7-Day Returns Reach 31.54%
The Fundamental, Insurance Companies, and Biotech Stocks were the most notable 7-day packages this week. GNW returned 31.54% in Insurance Companies package making it the top week-long earner. STEM and MDVN also did well with 29.84% and 19.54%. The packages had average returns of 5.13%, 5.02%, and 4.56% compared to the S&P 500’s -0.30%, 0.50%, -0.16%.

6. Returns up to 16.59% in 3 Days
The most impressive 3-day returns came from the Insurance Companies andTransportation Stocks packages. This stock returned 16.59% in this three-day time period. MATX and GOL performed superbly returning 13.81% and 10.00%. The I Know First averages for these forecasts were 4.85%, and 3.78%. This shadowed the S&P 500’s -0.02% and 0.17%.

7. Short-Term Trading: Summary of Realistic Backtests based on Daily Stock Selection
This article continues a series focused on testing the performance of trading strategies based on the I Know First indicators in more realistic backtests and show that the strategies previously presented perform well with the addition of slippage and commission costs. I Know First made 42.80% in 6 months trading open to open, including commission and slippage. Through using different I Know First trading strategies, I Know First was able to make an excellent return from using its algorithm.

8. During the past week, both co-founders of I Know First, Yaron Golgher (CEO) and Dr. Roitman (CTO), were featured for an interview on Euro Money, to discuss at length the future of AI algorithmic trading, specifically with regards to forex trading.

Article Summaries

Over 6 months ago, an I Know First analyst analyzed Nvidia stock’s potential. Google wants to release Nvidia’s Tegra K1-powered Pixel C Android laptop. This product is likely to sell well and raise revenue. Gamers will also flock to the Tegra-powered Android PC’s controller capabilities. This makes the relationship between Remix OS and Nvidia stronger, which will benefit Nvidia in the long run. The analyst predicted a large increase in stock price and the algorithm concurred. Since then, NVDA increased 108% in accordance with the analyst and algorithm’s predictions.

On July 4th, 2016, an I Know First analyst published an article on Autodesk. He believed that Autodesk wasn’t doing enough to compete with Adobe. He highlighted several sectors where Autodesk is performing weakly, mainly being how they should increase their creative industry software. Nevertheless, the analyst rated ADSK a buy based on future prospects of the company improving. The I Know First algorithm also released a buy signal for ADSK. Two months later, ADSK increased 23%, which both the analyst and the algorithm predicted would happen.

This article, published by an I Know First analyst on July 13th, 2016, analyzed Cheniere Energy. It discussed reasons LNG is likely to increase. New CEO Jack Fusco has a lot of experience leading companies and is likely to bring innovations to Cheniere. Cheniere also became the first US company to export natural gas to Europe. The Panama Canal expansion and the rising prices of natural gas are also auspicious for Cheniere. The analyst rated LNG a buy along with the I Know First algorithm. LNG has risen 10% since then, which proved both the analyst and algorithm’s predictions accurate.

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