Selecting Stocks by Recent Closing-Price Slope

Summary

The document proposes using the slope of closing prices over a recent window of five to ten trading days to rank stocks. Its example strategy selects the five stocks with the highest slopes, making the slope a short-term price-momentum signal.

The note gives no definition of the slope calculation, data-handling details, portfolio rules, or backtest results. It points readers to an external strategy example for implementation, so the exact method and its performance cannot be assessed from this document alone.

Key ideas

• The proposed signal ranks stocks by the slope of their closing prices over a recent period.
• The example strategy selects the five stocks with the largest slopes.
• The note does not specify the slope formula or provide evidence about strategy performance.

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