“Momentum has been successfully applied to pretty much everything.”

Gary Antonacci

Gary Antonacci is an author, consultant, and public speaker on momentum investing. He introduced the investment world to dual momentum which combines relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He is the author of the award-winning book, Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Approach for Higher Returns with Lower Risk.

On this episode, he explains the fundamentals of momentum investing, its history, and its market efficiency. He also explains the relationship between momentum investing and trend following, his stand on the efficient market hypothesis, and the best application of momentum investing. Listen in and learn from the foremost authority on the practical applications of momentum investing.

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ILAB 82 Show Notes

Links:

Website – Optimalmomentum.com

Dual Momentum Research – Dualmomentum.net

Book:

Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk

Discussed:

ILAB 45 – Behavioral Finance and How Betterment is Optimizing Around It

ILAB 73 – Trend Following: How to Profit with Michael Covel

Where we are:

Sam Marks – United States

Johnny FD – Southeast Asia

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Time Stamps:

02:12 – What is Dual Momentum Investing?

03:59 – What are Relative and Absolute Momentum?

08:28 – Fundamentals of Momentum Investing

08:57 – Efficient Market Hypothesis

11:18 – Market efficiency today vs. 30 years ago

13:56 – Relationship between Momentum Investing and Trend Following

15:41 – Relative Momentum vs. Absolute Momentum

17:13 – Geographically diversified stock industry

18:16 – History of Momentum Investing

23:39 – Recommendations

27:14 – Dual and Absolute Momentum

30:51 – How do you know when to get out?

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