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The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... activity. Worse than worst, this is happening in September -- the month of the year which, according to 'The Stock Trader's Almanac', is when the stock averages, on average, perform the poorest. Since 1970, the S&P 500 has fallen by 0.7%, the Dow by ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... the month of the year when we're advised to sell and go away! As Jeff Hirsch -- editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac - writes, "May begins the "Worst Six Months" for the DJIA and S&P. To wit: "Sell in May and go away." Our "Best Six Months Switching ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... prices to rise." Never mind, there's still the "as January goes, so goes the year" adage. As per, "The Stock Trader's Almanac", the direction of trading in January predicts the course of that year's trading 75% of the time. We still have a few days left ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... equities points to an average September for Wall Street. Here average means the average as observed by the 'Stock Trader's Almanac' -- Since 1970, the S&P 500 has fallen by 0.7%, the Dow by 1.1% and the Nasdaq (since 1971) by 1.0% -- on average - during ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... averages. Yes folks, it must only be because it's September - the month of the year which, according to 'The Stock Trader's Almanac', is when the stock averages, on average, performs the poorest. Since 1970, the S&P 500 has fallen by 0.7%, the Dow by ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... words at the American Enterprise Institute in 1996. But then again September's coming and, according to the Stock Traders' Almanac, it's the worst month of the year for US stocks. And then, there's October - the month of crashes and the month the Fed ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... way back in 2011 provides convincing argument. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some pretty persuasive numbers to support the argument. If you put $10,000 into the market on November 1, 1972, and ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... till April. Reuters printed an article back in 2011 supporting this: "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some pretty persuasive numbers to support the argument. If you put $10,000 into the market on November 1, 1972, and ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... there's the other half of the "sell in May" adage popularised by Jeff Hirsch, the editor-in-chief of the 'Stock Trader's Almanac', that goes, "buy in October, get yourself sober". October's gone but there's still to be in it to win it. According to the ...
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