MarketScalpel's Methodology & Approach
MarketScalpel's sector driven research is based on rigorous analysis of proprietary, value-added sector data assembled bottom up by our database and analytical framework.
Value-Added Sector Data
Critical to our analysis approach is the production of high quality, comprehensive sector data that delivers meaningful insights into sector attractiveness and outlook. This is derived from an in-house developed sector structure and mapping of the stocks universe that draws substantially on the founders' professional backgrounds in asset management, investment banking and strategy consulting. See:
- Sector Structure & Stocks Universe: Stock Screening Criteria, Regional Sector Datasets, Index Methodology
- Value-Added Sector Data: Describing sector sentiment with internals data, sector based time series extracted by MarketScalpel; breadth of sector coverage
- Interpreting Proprietary Sector Data: Advance-Decline Lines, Percent of Sector Components Above Key Moving Averages, 52-Week Highs/Lows
Research Techniques & Tools
Our research philosophy entails the use of rigorous, intellectually sustainable analysis techniques. We have been developing our analytical framework since 2002 accordingly - and with the benefit of significant client input from early 2005 - that includes a variety of statistical, quantitative and digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. See also:
- Volume Confirmation Signals: Proprietary statistical measure calculated bottom up from individual components at the sector levels pinpointing exceptional buying/selling activity that is additionally used for relative sector ranking
- Cycle Theory: Theoretical background and introduction to key terminology involved in our proprietary implementation of Spectral Analysis using Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques for identification of dominant trading cycles in sector price indices
Sector Driven Research Approach
Our sector driven approach is a function of both academic research and experience showing that sector factors are key determinants of investment returns. Read more:
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About MarketScalpel
We are an independent equity research firm enabling clients to take advantage of sector trends.
Our web-based Market Navigator™ research platform is a powerful and highly intuitive framework of analytical tools designed to anticipate and monitor sector and industry level trends. These tools are the product of rigorous numerical analysis applied to proprietary, value-added data derived from our sector database.
The platform incorporates tools for strategic market-by-sector analysis that assist in defining sector allocation and generate investment ideas by delivering a superior top-down overview of the market. These are based on both innovative visual and tabular formats, and are designed to allow fast drill-down to the sub-sector, industry and individual sector component levels for further analysis.
The platform also incorporates tactical investment tools on all levels of the sector hierarchy, delivering key metrics for assessing attractiveness, selecting from alternative investment candidates and offering insights into the optimal timing for position entries and exits.
