Out of Bounds wrote:Holding my short overnight was a mistake. I thought I saw some weakening but that turned out to be very wrong. I was just too early IMO.
Still holding to see how this develops through the day as I think the bull is due to falter but new highs often just generate more new highs.
It's always totally realtime w OOB. Gotta love it.
Here's a re-post, from yesterday's excellent sharing from Al Dente-- a study by the always meticulous research-behemoth that is Rob Hanna (at Quantifiable Edges and InvestiQuant).
"Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week do not show a strong, consistent edge. But the data for both Wednesday and Friday looks quite strong. Both of those days have seen the S&P 500 rise over 70% of the time, between 1960 – 2015. The average instance managed to gain about 0.3% for each of the 2 days. That is a hearty 1-day avg move."
Based just on this one seasonality study, perhaps a nimble and opportunistic skedaddle before that wall of potential bullishness hits might be the "discretion that is the Better part of valor..."
(Also, many markets are hitting ATHs simultaneously, that can reinforce a bullish spurt...)