February 1, 2010 · 6 comments
in 2010, February, S&P 500, international stock market, investing, market reports, market trends, seasonal investing, stock exchanges, stocks
Predicting where the stock market will go in February might be a lesson in futility more than futurity, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pay close attention to what the analysts are looking out for – and other key pieces of market news such as earnings, announcements from the Fed, levels of consumer credit card [...]
January 22, 2010 · 1 comment
in January, investing, market timing, market trends, psychology, seasonal investing, special dates, stocks, technical analysis, theories
What’s “the January Effect”? It’s a simple seasonal investing rule that goes something like this: “as goes January, so goes the rest of the year.”
Seasonal investing is not quite an investment style, but more like a strategy, for making trades that correspond to cyclical market trends around the year. Certain events, and thus market movements, [...]
January 21, 2010 · 4 comments
in 2010, British Columbia, Canadian, Canadian dollar, Canadian economy, Olympics, entertainment, forex, news and updates, seasonal investing, special dates, sports, winter
Between February 12 and 28, 2010, all eyes around the world will be on Vancouver, BC, Canada for the 2010 XXI Winter Olympic Games. More than viewers around the world, the Winter Olympics are expected to attract thousands of new visitors, tourists, athletes and Olympic personnel to the lower mainland of British Columbia. But just [...]
The Santa Claus Rally is the historic seasonality that occurs in the stock markets around Christmas and New Years. From about the 8th last trading day in December through the first three trading days in January, there has traditionally been fairly reliable upward swings in the markets, usually delivering positive returns.
According to Martin Roberge of [...]
November 30, 2009 · 0 comments
in December, Financial New Year, holidays, investing, market timing, market trends, seasonal investing, special dates, stock picks, stocks
It’s the end of November and another month has passed us by. The seasonal correction in the stock markets never really happened this year, along with other traditional seasonal trends that failed to confirm. Then again, this past year has been one of the more unusual for markets since the Great Depression. For example, the [...]
Earlier this year I wrote an article explaining seasonal investing for those new to this particular stock investing strategy. My attention is turned once again to the topic of seasonal investing now that Horizons BetaPro has launched a new seasonal investing ETF.
Moreover, the new AlphaPro Seasonal Rotation ETF (TSX: HAC) is managed by Canada’s foremost [...]
I’ve heard some of the crazier stock market indicators before – the lipstick theory, the shorter skirts theory (are they all sexist?!) – for the directions that the markets and the broader economy are considered to be headed in. Some technical analysis sounds no less arcane – “triple tops” and “double bottoms” as signs of [...]