Santa Claus Rally

After giving up all of its year-to-date gains and entering a correction for the second time in 2018 (the first drop being February’s dramatic correction), S&P 500 futures traders are trying to make up any lost ground that they can in the final few weeks of 2018. The broad market index is...

Santa Claus has been benign even to the markets, as is evident from the typically strong rally witnessed at the end of the year. Named the "Santa Claus Rally," this annual trend refers to the strong upward move in stock prices between Christmas and New Year's. Now, how is this...

December arrives Thursday, and with it comes visions of a Santa Claus rally on Wall Street. While it remains to be seen whether Santa delivers for investors this year, December's reputation as a good month for equities is well-deserved. Over the past two decades, the S&P 500 has posted an...

• The Santa Claus Rally is a year-end short-term seasonal stock trading opportunity. • While other Wall Street rules of thumb are hard to statistically verify, the Santa Claus rally has historically produced statistically significant returns. • This year’s Santa Claus...

The performance of the stock market during the Santa Claus Rally period could indicate its direction in the first half of 2016. Oppenheimer expects the Dow Jones Industrial Average to correct to 16,000 in coming months. The firm currently sees technical strength in airline stocks. In a...

Streets lined with twinkle lights, holiday store window displays and brisk winter air all signal December has finally arrived. A month punctuated by holiday celebrations, December is also a heavy month for trading, as investors sure up their portfolios for the coming year. As with every other year...

November is nearing its end. Following the mayhem in August that is being falsely blamed on a trading style known as "risk parity" (which has been around for years), the U.S. equity markets continue to chug higher while the Fed debates a December rate hike. In the midst of all this,...

There are many sayings that are used to describe movements in the financial markets. For example, “Sell in May and go away” and the “January Effect” are two of the most common ones. One that is applicable to the current time period is the “Santa Claus rally....

As the market reached new all-time highs in Friday's session, examining the particular dynamics of the recent rally can help predict what issues may encourage the continuation of this up-trend. Finding Value In Value Stocks Since the Ebola lows in mid-October, investors have been flocking...

The thing about the Santa Claus rally is that people often use it improperly, according to “The Stock Trader’s Almanac” Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Hirsch. Hirsch has been the editor-in-chief since he took the role over from his father, Yale Hirsch, who started the almanac in the...

There has been debate this year, as always, about whether a ‘Santa Claus rally’ would happen.  In fact, the seasonal anomaly in which abnormally positive returns take place in the market during the month of December has happened 80 percent of the time over the past 20 years. This year, some...