By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Yesterday, I shared the best investors you've never heard of.

Today, we'll look at the best investing strategy you've never heard of.

I LOVE this strategy... Here's why:

1. It has beaten the stock market... with less risk than the stock market.

2. It had only one losing year in 40 years – and that was a loss of 0.6% in 2008, when everything else fell 30% or more.

3. It's so simple a monkey could follow it... It takes five minutes of work a month.

With those three things going for it, how could you NOT want to know how this works?

The beauty of this strategy is its simplicity...

You don't need to know anything about interest rates, price-to-earnings ratios, elections, wars, or anything else. You don't need to know anything about "the fundamentals" at all.

All you need to know is that if the black line is above the blue line, the trend is up. That's it. Take a look...

When the black line is above the blue line, you want to own stocks. When the black line is below the blue line, you want to be out of stocks. Simple.

The black line is the stock market. The blue line is the "trend" line. (Exactly what the trend line is isn't that important. But in this case, it is the stock market's 10-month moving average.)

When the black line is above the blue line, you typically make money in stocks. Specifically, stocks went up at a double-digit compound annual rate when they were above the blue line. When the black line is below the blue line, you typically lose money in stocks.

This is the stock market portion of the strategy. But you do the same thing for other kinds of assets as well... You use the exact same signal (the 10-month moving average) to determine whether to be in or out of bonds, commodities, or anything else.

In short, the strategy only looks at five asset classes. You either own them or you don't. So you could theoretically be 0% invested.

My friend Meb Faber literally wrote the book on the strategy. (You can read his white paper on it, covering the years 1973 to 2012, here.)

As I write today, Meb's system is 100% invested. Here's how it's allocated:

•	20% U.S. stocks,
•	20% foreign stocks,
•	20% bonds,
•	20% real estate (REITs), and
•	20% commodities

Again, from 1973 to 2012 – the time frame his white paper covers – this strategy beat the stock market, with much less volatility. It only had one losing year – a small loss in 2008.

Best of all, it takes five minutes a month to implement...

If the trend is up in each asset, you own it. If the trend is down, you don't own it.

Sticking with the trend works far better than most people can imagine. Meb's simple, fantastic system is yet another example of it...

Good investing,

Steve

Further Reading:

Warren Buffett is often considered the best investor of all time. But Ed Seykota turned $5,000 into $15 million over 12 years. Learn how here: The Best Investors You've Never Heard Of.

If you're looking for a trade to make today, Steve recently highlighted an incredible opportunity in a certain emerging market. Get the details here: This 'Bad to Less Bad' Trade Has Hundreds-of-Percent Upside.

Market Notes

'OFFLINE' RETAIL STOCKS ARE CRASHING

More and more Americans are shopping online... and that's bad news for "offline" retail stores like Macy's (M).

Last week, we highlighted the soaring share price of America's top online retailer, Amazon (AMZN). Since online retailers like Amazon don't have to buy expensive real estate for stores, or hire a small army to operate them, it can undercut most "brick and mortar" retailers with lower prices. It's one of the reasons Amazon stock has risen more than 800% over the past seven years.

But all this growth is coming at the expense of "offline" retail stores. Take Macy's, for instance. It's one of America's most iconic brands. Its annual Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City has been an American institution since 1924. And as of last year, it was still the largest U.S. department store company by sales. That makes it a great gauge of what's happening in the industry.

As you can see below, things aren't looking good for "offline" retail. Over the past year, competition from online retail has led to slowing sales and earnings growth – and a collapse in share price. In just 10 months, shares of Macy's have lost about 60% of their value...

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