Comments on: Sell in May?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:16:57 +0000

Thanks for this great information. Too many times traders ignore these facts and find themselves on the wrong side of the market.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:25:20 +0000

Thomas,
Re-read the stats – they are dollar gains, not percentage and yes they are 100% accurate. Pick up a copy of the almanac (any year you wish).

Cire,
They are amazing stats – I first read about them when I bought my first stock almanac several years back.

By: Cire2222

Cire2222 — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:27:46 +0000

alot of talk around the stock world about the simple ‘sell in may go away’ amazing how there are stats to back such a strat. I wonder how a backtest would run on the ‘sell in may’ theory would work during times the indicies were trading below their 200ema

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:23:43 +0000

Are you sure that these statistics are right? I mean a 544323% gain compared to a .03% loss seems quite stunning.

“Seven of the past eight years have been losers for the worst six months”.
Just look at the Chart above, the worst months of 05 and 06 were both winners.

Please excuse me if I misinterpretated anything.