I had learned about a new term after reading about Lazy Singaporean's Blog Post -
Is mechanical investing a form of index investing?
It was the first time I came across this term, "Mechanical Investing".
After I googled, I found that Investopedia state that
mechanical investing is a form of "
buying and selling stocks according to a screen based on predetermined criteria, usually with the help of technical indicators such as relative strength or momentum. This method allows traders to enter transactions without emotion and backtest their strategies by using historical data from any time period."
It seems that without any prior knowledge of this term, I have been following mechanical investing via my scorecard method.
Although I am not a trader, but I have been practicing "buying and selling stocks according to a screen based on predetermined criteria" via the scorecard method. I have also ...
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