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November is usually a good month for stocks. Free from the seasonal worries about risky September and October markets, November often represents a return to a rallying environment in stocks generally and in certain sectors especially.
This year being a mid-term election year in the U.S. also bodes well for stock markets for the rest of 2010 and into [...]
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So what’s this “Hindenburg Omen” you may have been hearing about lately? Is it an economic conspiracy theory, or does it really have any value as a leading indicator for a market slowdown?
The Hindenburg Omen is a technical indicator created by the blind mathematician, Jim Miekka, that is supposed to predict financial crashes – and [...]
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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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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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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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