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The World’s Most Successful Trading Strategy.

In a recent article, we looked at the traditional approach to a trading strategy known as the  Dogs of the Dow . Several readers have questioned how a simple strategy like the Dogs can work. In this article, we will explain why the Dogs of the Dow can work and look at a variation of the   Stock trading tips that can be implemented at a relatively low cost. A common question among investors is how a strategy can work when a large number of investors already know about it. Researchers have shown that if a strategy is based on sound investing principles, it can work no matter how well known it is. This idea applies to the Dogs theory which has been well known for many years. Although most investors believe the theory dates back to the 1991 book  Beating the Dow  by Michael B. O’Higgins, we showed in our earlier article that the strategy was actually first written about in the June 1951 issue of the  Journal of Finance . Although the strategy has been available to investors for