Author

@MebFaber MebFaber

Rigorous, contrarian asset-allocation quant turning market history into actionable frameworks

Publishes original macro, valuation and asset-allocation res

trader score
-0.80
hit rate
20%
mean α
-0.40%
signals 14d
42

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 10 scored bets: 20% hit rate, -0.40% mean alpha, trader score -0.80. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved +0.6% since posting (mean over 4 mentions with price data).

Recent signals15receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-08-28·@MebFaber·Presents a bearish AI-bubble framework spanning credit, pricing, data centers and IPO supply.·
2026-08-28·@MebFaber·Shares a general investing principle favoring hedges alongside forecasts.·
2026-08-27·@MebFaber·Argues many investment products lack manager conviction and that poor products are often high-fee.·
2026-08-26SCHW@MebFaber-0.55Expects Schwab to face stronger downside as advisors adopt Altruist as a custodian.+0.7%
2026-08-25MFUT@MebFaber+0.15Promotes a discussion of managed futures and the Cambria Chesapeake Pure Trend ETF.·
2026-08-24·@MebFaber·Uses long-run data to argue for the compounding strength and resilience of U.S. equities.·
2026-08-24·@MebFaber·Quotes the bond market's power to intimidate policymakers and other actors.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Distinguishes long-only global asset allocation from Trinity strategies that allocate half to trend following.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Notes that risk-parity strategies historically allocate heavily to fixed income.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·States the All Weather portfolio has 111% bond exposure.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Attributes zero allocations to groupthink and discusses convergence among AI answers.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Discusses audience poll bias and estimates how a general audience would allocate responses.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Promotes a discussion of index investing, factor research and AI as a gold-rush theme.·
2026-08-21·@MebFaber·Howard Marks quote warns that widespread complacency about risk is itself dangerous.·
2026-08-20·@MebFaber·Discloses that Trinity strategies allocate roughly half to trend, unlike many endowments.·

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.