Robert L. Harper first started stock market investing in the 1960's with no real strategy and with mixed results. However, he continued to study the market and read many books on market investment strategies. Finally, being a history buff since his college days, he turned to studying the history of the market's performance back to 1926 and later back to 1924.
He saw there were patterns that showed when the market was most likely to have an up year and when it probably would have a down year. It wasn't perfect, but the investment results over the years were outstanding. The strategy does not call for personal judgement calls. The investor is directed by these historical patterns when to be in the market and when to be out. Because of this we can back-test how the HITS strategies would have performed from the beginning of 1924 on up until today.
From 1929 thru 1949 the HITS strategy gave the investor an average annual return of 12.19% while the Super HITS returned an amazing 22.36% average annual return. Looking back over the last 63 years the HITS strategy produced an average annual return of 14.03% and the Super HITS strategy gave the investor an average annual return of 17.17%
Robert L. Harper first started stock market investing in the 1960's with no real strategy and with mixed results. However, he continued to study the market and read many books on market investment strategies. Finally, being a history buff since his college days, he turned to studying the history of the market's performance back to 1926 and later back to 1924.
He saw there were patterns that showed when the market was most likely to have an up year and when it probably would have a down year. It wasn't perfect, but the investment results over the years were outstanding. The strategy does not call for personal judgement calls. The investor is directed by these historical patterns when to be in the market and when to be out. Because of this we can back-test how the HITS strategies would have performed from the beginning of 1924 on up until today.
From 1929 thru 1949 the HITS strategy gave the investor an average annual return of 12.19% while the Super HITS returned an amazing 22.36% average annual return. Looking back over the last 63 years the HITS strategy produced an average annual return of 14.03% and the Super HITS strategy gave the investor an average annual return of 17.17%