ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley Building on a February 1990 article by Jay Kaeppel, ""Formula Research"" report editor Nelson Freeburg and engineer/investor Charles Skelley introduce a stock market timing model using the Fed discount rate and the 13-week Treasury bill rate spread. Tracking two well-known interest rates -- the Federal Reserve discount rate and the 13-week Treasury bill rate -- allows us to build a powerful stock market timing model, one that backtesting over the past 40 years shows could have consistency outperformed ...