tailieunhanh - Stock trader almanac 2005 p 5

Hooper đã bác bỏ tầm quan trọng của tuần đầu tiên của tháng Giêng và tháng Giêng là chỉ số đáng tin cậy. Ông lưu ý rằng xu hướng này có thể là ngẫu nhiên hoặc thậm chí thao tác trong một tuần lễ-rút ngắn. Thay vào đó, Hooper, "Hãy chú ý nhiều hơn nữa để thấp Tháng Mười Hai. | continued from page 78 in October and get yourself sober. Not too catchy but nothing really rhymes with October. The simple fact is that the market makes the vast majority of its gains from the beginning of November through the end of April while the market tends to be flat to down from May through October. The simple switching strategy has been refined by adding a MACD timing trigger see pages 50 52 . Starting at the beginning of April we employ a 12-25-9 MACD trigger to indicate and confirm a sell. And starting at the beginning of October we employ an 8-17-9 MACD trigger to indicate and confirm a buy. For a detailed explanation go to and click on the MACD tab. When the October MACD triggers an Almanac Investor would go long the broad market ETFs Diamonds Trust DIA for the Dow the S P Depository Receipts SPY for the S P and the Nasdaq 100 Trust QQQ for the NASDAQ. The April trigger would confirm that it is time to sell Diamonds and Spiders. The Qs get sold on June s Best Eight Months trigger. The purpose of that signal is not to call market tops and bottoms nor is it a trigger to dump everything in your portfolio. The sell signal represents that it is time to rotate out of our seasonal investments in broad market index positions the QQQs DIAs and SPYs purchased when the Almanac Investor MACD buy signal triggered in October. This sell signal is also a signal for people who are risk adverse to move a larger portion of their investment portfolios into cash or cash equivalents. It is also time to become more defensive with a portfolio tighten stop losses and take gains when they are present. Subscribers to our services receive all MACD buy and sell signals via email. The signals are made public on our website at a later date. THE ONLY FREE LUNCH ON WALL STREET We have been capitalizing for many years on the NYSE stocks making new 52-week lows near year-end. Many are dumped for tax-loss purposes. These stocks often bounce sharply for one to