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You may have heard of the term “seasonal investing.” Myself, I was just introduced to this investment strategy over the past year through Brooke Thackray, MBA, CFP and president of alphaMountain Investments. His firm publishes reports that “use seasonal analysis to give investors and money managers an edge in the markets.”
So what is seasonal investing?
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Here’s a little “tip” or “tidbit” that I learned today watching BNN (Canada’s CNBC). Generally speaking, company earnings lag the markets by about one year. This means that since experts are generally agreeing now that November 20, 2008 represented the overall market bottom (unless, of course, we retest that bottom), that it will take until [...]
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A “Santa Claus Rally” refers to the final week or so of trading of each year – if, that is, there is a rally in the stock markets during this time. Doesn’t look like there’s going to be for this year.
With the holidays I haven’t been around on this blog as much, but hopefully that [...]
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Well, it’s been just about a month and a half now that markets have really been in the nosedive. Maybe slightly more. It really started to dive maybe just by the end of September. October was the worst month on record (for several measures) since the post-war (WW2) period. But November hasn’t really been much [...]
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I don’t think the markets are all that calm right now – the VIX is still hovering around the 60’s – but they are definitely calmer than they were one month ago. There’s a more long-term uncertainty now, perhaps, rather than a day-to-day disaster feeling, even if the roller coasters in the Dow are still [...]
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Another rally in the markets today. The US dollar is down again and the Canadian dollar is up by another four cents, following on oil’s rise above $66 (it’s now at more than $68 after hours as I write). Quite amazing how quickly the cash flows back in once those on the sidelines sense there’s [...]
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