{"id":616,"date":"2007-05-22T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/investing\/2007\/05\/sell-in-may-buy-back-in-november\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:48:43","slug":"sell-in-may-buy-back-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Sell in May, Buy Back in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting observation in the S&amp;P Outlook recently. Since 1945, in the period from November-April, the S&amp;P 500 returned 7.19%; in the May-October period, just 1.6%. What do do? Sell in May, and Buy back in November!<\/p>\n<p>I think this is true this year. I feel like we\u2019re due for a correction. It might be a good time now, especially after the recent records.<\/p>\n<p>They recommend doing the following.<\/p>\n<p>For May-October overweigh- consumer staples- health care<\/p>\n<p>For November \u2013 April overweigh- financials- industrials- materials- consumer discretionary- information technology<\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s an interesting observation\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a chart that breaks the returns by month, averaged since 1950.<\/p>\n<p><?php maxImg(\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/199\/511611731_d7f80756ee.jpg?v=0\") ?><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting observation in the S&amp;P Outlook recently. Since 1945, in the period from November-April, the S&amp;P 500 returned 7.19%; in the May-October period, just 1.6%. What do do? Sell in May, and Buy back in November! I think this is true this year. I feel like we\u2019re due for a correction. It might be a good time now, especially after the recent records. They recommend doing the following. For May-October overweigh- consumer staples- health care For November \u2013 April overweigh- financials- industrials- materials- consumer discretionary- information technology Now that\u2019s an interesting observation\u2026 Here&#8217;s a chart that breaks the returns by month, averaged since 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","tag-investing-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}