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Bad News Sells; Fight Media Bias

 

Bad News Sells; Fight Media Bias

People want to remind you September can be treacherous; while stirring up fear they forget to tell you it can be the best time to buy

By Paul Price at Guru Focus

By the time you’re reading this we’ll be into post-Labor Day trading. Your mind has been tainted by numerous headlines letting you know that September has been, statistically, the worst month of the year for stocks over the last half century.

That Wall Street Journal headline certainly wouldn’t get people in the mood to commit new funds to stocks. Neither would the Journal’s Aug. 28 Money Beat segment detailing a 10-week stretch when mutual fund investors yanked over $30 billion out of mutual funds and ETFs.

That was the longest continuous period of net weekly redemptions since 2004.

It wasn’t just the Wall Street Journal that was spewing fear about September. On Aug. 31 Bespoke Investment Group showed the chart below.

Septembers were the runaway winners in garnering negative results over the past half century. Augusts were the only months with negative returns, and that was just minus 2% versus (-29%) in the following 30 days.

Octobers have hosted many famous crashes, but they’ve proven to be solid winners by month ends. Novembers and Decembers are traditionally strong.

Those are all facts. How can you make that knowledge work for you?

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