The official period for this year's Santa Claus Rally begins on Monday December 27th.
Remember, the Santa Claus Rally includes the last 5 days of the year, and the first 2 days of the following year. So this year's SCR starts on Monday Dec...
The January Effect posits that financial markets experience a seasonal anomaly in the beginning of each year whereby stock prices tend to rise more than in any other month.
Seasonality of markets is something I've done a lot of work on throughout my career. As humans who are part of society, we behave differently depending on the seasons. We dress differently, we hang out with different people, we go to different places...
It's that time of the year again. This is when we hear things like the "January Effect", the "First 5 Days of the Year Indicator", "Santa Claus Rally", "January Barometer" and all sorts of seasonal-type...