For what it's worth, my son woke me up at 2:30 last night, and by 4 I was tinkering with my model.

Wanted to check something out, and there was a factor in there that I didn't want, but I was too lazy to get rid of it, so I let it stay.

Then I noticed that it did something strange.

It could time the market.

Not perfect, of course, but in a simulation from 5 December 2003 to today, a 1000 investment using the timer just to go long or short the S&P would have a return of 3700 today.

It went long on August 18th and is still long. I'll include its reading as part of my Mousetrap updates in the future.

Not as good as the Robot, of course, but interesting to compare.