Prayers for RISINGFOODPRICE THEME investors as it ranked among the worst performers

Rising Food Prices ranked among the worst performers on Tuesday. It delivered -0.55% to close at 966.2. On a day when the overall market breadth was 34%, it closed higher than 18% of the market. In comparison, the benchmark SP500 index closed today at +0.01%.

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Buy-and-Hold investors in ~RISINGFOODPRICE experienced a maximum drawdown of -12.34% over the last three months. It delivered -10.06% during this strong bearish trending period. There were both Long and Short signals during this period, where the short signals were significantly more profitable than the long signals. The net profit from Short signals was +2.97%.

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~RISINGFOODPRICE has been underperforming the SP500 index in recent time. It showed significant underperformance (compared to the SP500 index) from 30 Dec, 2016 to 1 Oct, 2018. Over the last 2 years 1 month and 8 day, ~RISINGFOODPRICE underperformed the SP500 index on 49% days. Which indicates that on days ~RISINGFOODPRICE underperforms the SP500 index, it's performance is marginally worse than on the days it outperforms the SP500 index.

During the last three months ~RISINGFOODPRICE was mostly loss making and delivered on average -0.16% per day. It's best return during this period (of +1.86%) was on Tuesday, 16 Oct, 2018. While it's worst loss in the same period (of -2.49%) was on Monday, 17 Dec, 2018. The longest stort-term trend during this period was 6 losing days, which started on 30 Nov, 2018 and ended on 10 Dec, 2018. This bearish trend lost -5.74% of investor capital.

The last 12 months saw ~RISINGFOODPRICE's investors making profits in 5 months and incurring losses in 7 months. ~RISINGFOODPRICE was less consistent in delivering monthly returs than SP500 index. ~RISINGFOODPRICE was also a more risky investment than SP500 index as it's worst month in the last year, Dec 2018, returned -8.11% compared to -7.75% returned by SP500 index in Dec 2018. ~RISINGFOODPRICE had a shorter streak of profitable months than SP500 index. It only went up in 3 straight months during the last year. It is interesting to note that both ~RISINGFOODPRICE and SP500 index significantly outperform during months when quarterly/annual results are announced.

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~RISINGFOODPRICE is currently seeing overall increase in volatility. In comparison, the SP500 index is seeing increase in volatility. During the last three months, there was a significant fall in ~RISINGFOODPRICE's volatility from 31 Oct, 2018 to 30 Nov, 2018. While there was a significant surge in the SP500 index's volatility from 19 Sep, 2018 to 29 Oct, 2018.

Advanced/professional short-term investors should note that ~RISINGFOODPRICE has significant positive skewness in it's return distribution. This indicates that investors can expect ~RISINGFOODPRICE to recover from drawdowns quickly. Which makes ~RISINGFOODPRICE a good candidate for investing on short-term bullish trends or even counter-trends hoping for a pull-back.

~RISINGFOODPRICE has more chance of extreme outcomes than the SP500 index. Therefore, ~RISINGFOODPRICE must receive a lower allocation than SP500 in your portfolio. SP500 index usually has shorter drawdown period than ~RISINGFOODPRICE.

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