In our non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy we use sector funds as well as index funds, avoiding individual stocks.
For instance, the earliest re-entry date for the Street Smart Report Seasonal Timing Strategy is October 16.
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This market-timing strategy is commonly known as Sell in May and Go Away because the exit period is May.
However, of more interest to me right now are the shorter term seasonal patterns, which I incorporate in my non-seasonal market-timing strategy.
My Seasonal Timing Strategy triggered its exit signal on April 20.
Using the MACD to tweak the seasonally best period is the heart of Sy Harding's "seasonal timing strategy, " which he uses for market timing in his Street Smart Report.
Not only has my seasonal strategy not yet triggered a re-entry, but my non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy remains on an intermediate-term sell signal, and some significant support levels like 200-day moving averages, and trendline supports, have been broken.
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If the weakness lasts long enough, the timing strategy will catch up, but the swiftness of the early slump has been noteworthy enough to make us wonder if there is a way to generate a quicker sell signal.
Ross points out that the success of such a seasonal timing strategy relies on prices being lower seven months from now than they are today, a turnout he considers unlikely and that could have investors ruing the day they sold in May.
So there are reasons to expect the favorable season rally to continue, and I and my subscribers remain 100% invested in our Seasonal Timing Strategy portfolio, and 80% invested in our non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy, enjoying the ride and expecting more gains ahead.
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Recognizing that the market does not launch into a new rally on the same day each fall, or top out on the same day in the spring, in 1999 my advisory service introduced what we call our Seasonal Timing Strategy to the public.
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The question for seasonal investors now, fractionally ahead of the market if they followed the spring exit and recent re-entry signal of my Seasonal Timing Strategy, is whether the rally that began in November was the beginning of a typical favorable season rally into next spring.
"The strategy and timing are proceeding according to plan, " Blair said.
Very few, if any, buy and hold investors are able to do that, most becoming market-timers but with the worst of timing, bailing out of the strategy in disgust after experiencing large losses.
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Adding to the hawkish sentiment, an article by Fed mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath in the Wall Street Journal indicated Fed officials have already mapped out a strategy to wind-down QE, and that only timing is left as a point of contention.
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