Are high retail sales increases really positive if the inflation rate is higher?
This year over year indicator of retail sales versus inflation levels can be placed in concert with any security to determine how symbols trade when inflation or retail sales are higher. A green histogram is when retail sales are higher than the inflation rate on a year over year...
This is a strategy tester designed around the most important data from FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
As input data, we have:
// Personal Consumption Expenditures
// Real Retail and Food Services Sales
// Leading Index for the United States
// All Employees: Total Nonfarm Payrolls
// Real Gross Domestic Product
// Gross Domestic Product
I adapted the long...
