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Finance: What are January Effect and Santa Claus Rally? 3 Views


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What are the Santa Claus rally and the January effect? We really hope it involves Wall Street professionals dressing in Santa suits.

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Finance allah shmoop what are the santa claus rally and

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the january effect Well we actually attended a santa claus

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rally last december the energy in the arena was off

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the charts Who knew elves could be that loud Yeah

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really Ok so in finance land a santa claus rally

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is well something else it refers to a rally or

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rise in stock prices during the month of december and

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they don't even need magical reindeer Teo you know achieve

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lift off Why december Because according to you our desk

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calendar december is the last month of the year on

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for a whole bunch of tax and accounting reasons there

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are trades that need to happen before the end of

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the calendar year like professional funds need to have a

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certain minimum amount invested in the stock market rather than

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holding cash or there was some huge hot stock that

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they want to show that they at least own for

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pa art of the year so they buy it in

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december and all investors want to sell their losers either

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for the tax loss or just because they don't want

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those on their annual report that they owned a million

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Shares of dog crap dot com so because everything is

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better with acute see name attached well this onslaught of

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activity has been termed the santa claus rally and generally

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there is more buying than selling as optimism generally beats

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pessimism this time of year So historically stocks have gone

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up right around christmas All right so what about the

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january effect Well because all the buying has bought up

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the quote loose unquote shares in the market place or

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rather the nervous nellies who kind of sort of wanted

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to sell their shares have now sold them While there

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simply isn't the supply of shares at lower prices available

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for buyers to buy and so with the same demand

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unless supply prices go up yeah eq on one first

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week and to boot Yeah there's typically an increase in

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stock prices after new year's which financial gurus have lovingly

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named the january effect Or as mrs claus calls at 00:02:05.17 --> [endTime] santa's recovery period No

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