You were having massages while playing poker and you still crushed them in poker and not get distracted by those g-rated girls?? LOL Wow you must have the nerve of the steel for concentration. LOL
What fearful investors. Stop going away. Every month is a good trading month. Just see how much crude oil and gold have been moving in May. crude oil average day range - 5% gold average day range - 1.5% Traders like volatility.
One is not like the other....Nobody said don't trade, the thread is about being long longer term, aka investing. Do I really have to spell this out?
TRY & GET SOBER AND COME BACK IN OCTOBER- Yes. That is a really old time Stock Market saying for sure--- JP Morgen house. Ivar Kreuger days-- Absolutism gets you nowhere so the sell in may is really a reflection on a longer period. And I can tell you for sure in the old days, often the summer sucked. Big time. I would be out at Fire Island with with my brother- in- law who ran my money those days (don't do that) and low and behold the summer days we would be on the beach and shit be crashing.Really diving. June can suck. The dog days suck and then you always would hear -- wait it's low volume, don't worry, everyone is at the beach. Wait for the pros to comeback...and sure enough when all the brown tipped shoes got back to their desks in Sept /Oct it only got worse. As soon as they had their fingers on the buttons down we went further. This is an old one that is really true: As goes January, so goes the year.
One interesting item an old Mark Twain quote Mark Twain>Quotes> Quotable Quote (?) “October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” ―Mark Twain,Pudd'nhead Wilson Even back then Oct.
If anyone wants to look deeper into any seasonal anomalies, this is the book to go. "Stock Traders Almanac" and more info on this website https://www.stocktradersalmanac.com/