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Seasonal Investing Rule #1: How To Use the January Effect To Your Advantage

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, [...]

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Will We Still Be Investing in 2110, and What Will Markets Look Like in 100 yrs?

January 11, 2010 · 7 comments

in BRIC, China, G20, OPEC, capitalism, commodities, currencies, emerging markets, environment, future, international economy, investing (general), market trends, stock exchanges, sustainability, theories, wealth transfer, wealthbuilding, world order

Have you ever thought about how investing will change over the next century?  What will the investment landscape look like in 2110, or even in 2080?
I have to admit, I don’t think I’ve ever thought about this specific question before.  But it occurred to me when I heard an analyst from London talking about what [...]

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Stock Market Correlations With Moon Cycles – Should You Buy Stocks On a Full Moon?

November 17, 2009 · 17 comments

in investing, market timing, seasonal investing, special dates, stocks, theories

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 [...]

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