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Making the most out of Seasonality
Weak weeks offer incredible opportunities to buy great stocks at a discount.. let's find them!
Reminder: Tonight at 7PM EST is our monthly market review. We’ll look at the most important market, sector and industry trends, and share our best trades to profit through the end of the year.
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The first week and a half of the Jewish New Year has traditionally been very weak for the markets.
As a matter of fact, it’s so consistent that it has its own adage:
“Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur” has been a Wall Street whisper for nearly a century.
And we’re seeing it play out per usual:
But like all seasonal trends, we aren’t going to close all of our trades just because there may be some volatility in the markets.
As a matter of fact, had we done that in September as the seasonal data suggested, we would have missed out on one of the best months this year.
Instead, I want to focus on which areas of the market are leading through the end of summer and into the first week of October.
These sectors and industries give us valuable information as to which stocks are going to perform the best through the end of the year.
And that translates into the potential for big profits.
While they’ve been telling you that this market is ready to fall for a million different reasons, the S&P 500 continues to chug along with a consistent stream of more new highs than new lows.

S&P 500, SPY, Weekly Timeframe
As a matter of fact, the S&P 500 closed at its highest monthly price ever on Monday.
And much as everyone wants to talk about how rotation into defensive areas is bearish, a quick look at industry performance from the August 5th lows (remember, that whole Japanese Yen carry trade thing?) shows otherwise:

US Industry Performance, August 5th - Today
I spot the three highest beta industry groups leading the pack.
And that is anything but bearish.
We’re going to talk about all of this and a lot more tonight at 7PM EST.
Every month we start off by looking at the most important trends and trades in the market.
We’ll go through trades we’re currently in and trades we want to put on RIGHT NOW to make the most out of the end of the year.
Watch by clicking the video below:
I look forward to seeing you tonight,
Hamilton
