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The authors evaluate 94 uncorrelated characteristics of average U.S. monthly stock returns. Only 12 survive testing once the results are controlled for micro-capitalization stocks and data-snooping bias. Long-short equity strategies appear to benefit from the inclusion of all 94 variables.
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