The Best Market Holiday To Trade...The Day After

February 21, 2017 12:24 PM | 1 min read |

Market holidays can be an anxious time for traders and investors. Without the typical deluge of financial news, market mavens can get a bit of cabin fever stuck at home yearning for the chance to hear that opening bell again.

How does all that pent-up energy translate to activity in the equities markets? Below is a list of 2017's market holidays on the New York Stock Exchange, in order of their average percentage gains over the previous day's close over the last five years.

2017 Market Holidays

Labor Day
  • Monday, Sept. 4 — Five-year average return of Labor Day over previous day's close is 0.61 percent.
    • President's Day
  • Monday, Feb. 20 — 0.548 percent.
    • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  • Monday, Jan. 16 — 0.25 percent.
    • Memorial Day
  • Monday, May 29 — 0.24 percent.
    • Good Friday
  • Friday, April 14 — 0.128 percent.
    • New Year's Eve
  • Monday, Jan. 1, observed Jan. 2 — 0.122 percent.
    • Christmas Day
  • Monday, Dec. 25 — 0.09 percent.
    • Independence Day
  • Tuesday, July 4 — (0.16) percent.
    • Thanksgiving Day
  • Thursday, Nov. 23 — (0.96) percent.

    • So, it would appear the market bulls hold sway most after the Labor Day break, while traders wake up the morning after Thanksgiving dinner feeling bearish.

    Happy belated President's Day and happy trading, readers!

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