Interesting. Seems to be in conflict w/ steever's post about an
election trade. He says that, according to the trader's almanac, in
all but one year since 1934, if you bought the market 5 days before
the mid-term election and sold three days after, it was a
winning trade, w/ an average of 2.7%.
Interesting. Seems to be in
Markets after election mid term
Posted by frtaylor on 2nd of Nov 2010 at 04:05 pm
Interesting. Seems to be in conflict w/ steever's post about an election trade. He says that, according to the trader's almanac, in all but one year since 1934, if you bought the market 5 days before the mid-term election and sold three days after, it was a winning trade, w/ an average of 2.7%.
Seems like a pretty good
Posted by darnelds on 2nd of Nov 2010 at 04:11 pm
Seems like a pretty good trade so far.
5-10% decline
Posted by perthx on 2nd of Nov 2010 at 04:09 pm
can start the day of the election or 2-3 days after and last 3-7 trade days...McHugh did a big listing of midterm charts this past weekend.