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Re: Reasonable Runaways Historic Data



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Please report your results. His stuff sounds great, it would be nice if the
numbers were verified by someone else.

In a message dated 1/1/99 12:17:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, samfamly@xxxxxx
writes:

> I am looking to do some back testing  on  James O'Shaughnessy's
>  Reasonable Runaways long term stock strategy which is covered in his
>  recent book "How to Retire Rich".
>  The stock selection criteria are as follows:
>  1.  Market Cap > $150 million
>  2.  Price - Sales Ratio < 1
>  3.  Buy the 25 to 50 stocks from 1 and 2 above that have the best one
>  year price appreciation.
>  4.  Rerun the selection process once a year.
>  
>  This is a buy and hold strategy. I want to add a equity curve based
>  switch to this simple system.  I am having trouble finding historic data
>  
>  for market cap and the price to sales ratio. One set of data per year
>  would be acceptable. Any suggestions on where to find this historic data
>  
>  for US stocks.
>  Thanks for any suggestions.
>  Matt Samojeden