Quality strategy
Low-Volatility Anomaly
Build a basket of the market's calmest stocks — historically, low-volatility portfolios have matched or beaten the index with far smaller drawdowns, the opposite of what standard theory predicts.
3–5+ years, judged over a full market cycleBeginner–Intermediate
Robert Haugen (with James Heins, 1972) documented it first; Nardin Baker & Robert Haugen, “Low Risk Stocks Outperform Within All Observable Markets of the World” (2012), confirmed it globally