Kirkpatrick Service Description and Manual

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Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc.

Kirkpatrick’s Market Strategist

Description of Service Purpose of Service The Market Strategist subscription service provides market timing and stock selection based on a long series of studies by Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT (co-author of Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, 3rd ed., Pearson Education as FT Press, New York, 2015.) The weekly and monthly reports offer investment managers timing signals for market trends, designed for the formulation of long-term investment strategies and short-term trading tactics. The reports also provide stock selection using relative price strength analysis, one of the only methods to statistically refute both the efficient markets hypothesis and random walk hypothesis in stock prices. The reports fully disclose the methods, formulas, variables, and parameters included in the timing and selection models. All models are derived through rigorous walk-forward optimizing analysis.

Format of Service Weekly: The Weekly Market Strategist is sent to subscribers each weekend, and uses daily market price data to time trends in the U.S stock market, the U.S. long-term bond market, gold, crude oil, and emerging foreign stock markets. The report includes updated intermediateterm charts and a detailed analysis of those charts to derive market-timing signals. It also includes the Bargain List of stocks that have met proscribed relative strength purchase requirements, and a list of additions and deletions to and from the list for that week. The list includes ranks in relative price strength, relative earnings growth, the relative price-to-sales ratio, date and price when added to the list, profit or loss, and a suggested protective stop level for each security. Stock charts include a legend that describes the abbreviated symbols on each chart, and a table describes the Bargain List rules. Monthly: The Monthly Overview is a 9 to 12 page report that provides charts and analysis of intermediate- and long-term trends in the U.S. stock market, U.S bond market, gold, crude oil, industrial raw materials, agricultural product prices, foreign stock markets in aggregate and the Japanese stock market. It occasionally includes the timing results of three economic models that were the subject of the studies reported in my book (Time the Markets: Using Technical Analysis to Interpret Economic Data, Pearson Education as FT Press, 2012) and reports the annual performance of the Bargain List over the past three years.

Investment Philosophy Disputing the concept of using diversification as a means of decreasing risk in stock portfolios, my investment philosophy encompasses two principle concepts: market timing and relative strength stock selection. 1 www.charleskirkpatrick.com


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