The 90% Solution Higher Returns, Less Risk [Hardcover]

The 90% Solution is about understanding the most important factors impacting today’s stock market, how they influence performance—and how they can be used to produce higher returns. In it, author David Rogers challenges traditional investment strategies, then points the way to new and alternative investment methods that can help you rise above the “expectations for mediocrity” that seem to dominate conventional investment thinking.Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Act I Slaying the Dragons.

1 Lessons from Shakespeare's Bastard Son.

2 This Is Not Your Grandfather's Stock Market.

3 The Farce That Is Buy and Hold .

Act II If Only You Could . . .

4 Simple, Simon Says.

5 Epiphany.

6 What If?

Act III My Approach to Market Timing.

7 A Timing Manifesto.

8 Silencing Statistical Noise.

9 Technical Timing Signals.

Act IV My Management Solutions.

10 My Mutual Fund Asset Allocation Solutions.

11 My Convergence Fund Solution.

Act V Other Approaches.

12 Broad Strokes.

13 Other Timing Approaches and Resources.

Afterword.

Index.

DAVID ROGERS is founder and Chief Investment Officer of Watauga Equity Management, a registered investment advisory firm in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, that specializes in active asset allocation strategies using indexed and leveraged mutual funds. He is also a Senior Financial Writer for CCG Investor Relations and Strategic Communications, Los Angeles. Mr. Rogers has nearly thirty years' experience in the investment industry and has held advisory, research, trading, and sales positions forlcl