This version of Mansfield Relative Strength ( MRS ) weights the MRSs with different lookback periods by adding the weight of 2:1:1:1 to MRS (1Q) : MRS (2Q) : MRS (3Q) : MRS (4Q).
Typically, the lookback period of a MRS is reference to a full year, i.e. 260 trading dates or 52 weeks; to better represents the relative strength of a stock to a recent performance,...
There are many investors referring to Relative Strength (RS) indicator published by Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) for their analysis. Since the RS published by IBD is a proprietary indicator, no exact formulation is published on it.
Many discussion suggested that an alternative to the IBD RS is the Mansfield Relative Strength .
There are 2 parameters for...