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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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Stock Market Trends in December 2009: What Should You Invest In At the End of the Year?

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 [...]

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Will the September Correction Come in October?

October 5, 2009 · 0 comments

in October, Q4, September, VIX volatility, earnings, investing, market timing, seasonal investing, special dates, stocks

We’re still waiting…. If the traditional September stock market pullback doesn’t happen, conventional wisdom says we should look for it in October.  October, after all, is historically just as stormy – memories of the crash of ‘87 and even the big post-Lehman DJIA collapse keep investors cautious.
Caution is even more advisable when you’ve got the [...]

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