“…Dozens of graduate and undergraduate students in Rice University's Market Models class, and in independent research, have studied various permutations to the rule, such as different lookback and holding periods, other rebalancing rules, cash investment and constituent dropout programs, etc. Academic researchers have also validated and extended the concept, such as Affinito ( 2009), Ernst, Thompson and Miao (2017a, 2017b), and Tooth (2012. They have all studied the MaxMedian rule's efficacy over different study periods and have found the phenomenon persists.…”