The January effect is the estimated seasonal trend in inventories for that month.
Since 1938, 29 out of 30 years of growth in January-February resulted in an average annual increase in the S&P 500 by 20%.
The January effect is supposed to occur when investors sell shares of winners to pay year-end capital gains tax in December and use those funds to speculate in weaker markets.
Like other market anomalies and calendar effects, the January effect is seen by some as evidence against the efficient markets hypothesis.
This investment strategy uses selling short stocks and using the proceeds from the sale of those stocks to buy and hold the best rated stocks for a specified period of time.
The authorized reserve refers to the maximum number of shares that a publicly traded company may issue, as specified in its articles of incorporation or articles of association.
The Greater Fool Theory states that you can make money buying overpriced securities because there will usually be someone (i.e. a bigger fool) who is willing to pay an even higher price.
“Eventually, when the market runs out of fools, prices will start to go down.
The Halloween strategy suggests that investors should be fully invested in stocks from November to April and not invested in stocks from May to October.
Liar’s Poker is a multiplayer game in which players take turns betting on the total number of digits contained in the serial numbers of dollar bills held by players.