Top/Bottom 12 month momentum score + frog-in-a-pan score for S&P500 and NAS100 stocks (July 2025)
Momentum: Past 12 months momentum excluding current month.
Frog-in-pan-score: Measure of jumpyness/smoothness of momentum. (More negative = smoother, better quality momentum)
Scores are ordered in the following format (momentum, frog-in-a-pan-score)
Only stocks with a negative frog-in-a-pan-score are included)
The idea is to long stocks with the highest quality momentum and short those with the lowest quality momentum in a portfolio.
Be mindful/selective of your shorts, since stocks tend to have a positive drift over time.
Top 10 momentum winners
PLTR (5.3818,-0.1527)
APP (4.2067,-0.1091)
GEV (3.0899,-0.1527)
AXON (2.8138,-0.1200)
HWM (2.4049,-0.1455)
VST (2.2699,-0.0727)
DASH (2.2661,-0.1382)
NRG (2.1005,-0.0836)
TPR (2.0994,-0.0655)
JBL (2.0095,-0.1091)
Bottom 10 momentum losers
MRNA (0.2323,-0.1236)
ENPH (0.3977,-0.0364)
REGN (0.5009,-0.0036)
DOW (0.5233,-0.0836)
BIIB (0.5418,-0.0655)
SMCI (0.5982,-0.1091)
TER (0.6092,-0.0073)
AES (0.6319,-0.0218)
DECK (0.6389,-0.0291)
STZ (0.645,-0.0291)
Derived from the book "Quantitative Momentum" by Jack Vogel and Wesley Gray.
Data used in the calculations derived from yahoo finance (Python yfinance library).
Use at your own risk.
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