From the category archives:

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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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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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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