USE THE JANUARY EFFECT FOR A POTENTIAL 30% RETURN IN THREE MONTHS

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USE THE JANUARY EFFECT FOR A POTENTIAL 30% RETURN IN THREE MONTHS

This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert.

The January Effect offers an opportunity to potentially make about 30% in three months. It is a phenomenon that makes prices of certain stocks rise more in January than the market averages.

Over the last 30 years, we have made money from the January Effect about 75% of the time, broken even about 10% of the time, and lost money about 15% of the time.

Why dips occur in certain stocks providing opportunities

The practical way to take advantage of the January effect is to buy dips in certain stocks that may occur for the following two reasons:

1. Tax-loss selling. One strategy that is commonly employed by investors is to offset gains by taking losses on certain stocks. Such selling for tax purposes artificially depresses the price of certain stocks.

2. Window dressing. Portfolio managers in their year-end reports do not want to show investors that they were holding stocks that did not do well. Therefore they sell such stocks artificially depressing them further.

Two reasons behind the January Effect

The January effect occurs for two reasons.

1. Investors buy stocks in January that were artificially depressed because of tax-loss selling in the prior year.

2. In January, Wall Street professionals get big bonuses. Those with big bonus prefer bargain stocks and drive up the prices of the stocks that were losers the previous year.

The conventional wisdom is that this effect applies only to small stocks. Our experience is that the effect is not limited to small stocks but applies to depressed stocks in general.

How to reduce risk

At The Arora Report, we advocate a basket strategy to reduce risk. The Arora Report has publishes a basket of stocks to profit from the January Effect along with buy zones and position sizes. Most of the buy zones are below the market. The plan is to catch down spikes. Typically only 15%-25% of the stocks on the list get fills.

All stocks with fills will not be winners, there will be losers. Even some winners will have puny returns. Typically two or three stocks end up with monster returns. The average return typically ends up about 30% over three months.

When to buy

Thirty years ago, one could simply buy depressed stocks in the last week of December. Now that the phenomenon has become well known, the time to buy is earlier. These calls to buy remain valid until about Jan. 10. On Jan. 11, consider canceling all open orders that have not filled. After Jan. 10, the securities on the list that have not filled are no longer valid recommendations and are withdrawn.

When to take gains

Typically, gains are taken in the period of late January to early April.

Managing the trades

A practical way is to put in good-til-canceled orders (GTC). Consider putting small orders in tranches spread out in the buy zones. All orders will not fill. If there are not many fills, consider raising the order prices. Every year there have been a handful of stocks on the list that came within $0.25 of the top band of the buy zone and then went on to double. For this reason, aggressive investors may want to take liberty with the top end of the buy zones. If buying above the top band of the buy zone, consider reducing the quantity to reduce risk.

If you already hold some of the stocks in the basket, consider excluding those from your January effect list.

Caution

It never pays to chase the price. To be successful, consider buying only on the down spikes.

List Of  Stocks

In prior years the list of stocks is published by now.  Last year we published a list of 71 stocks.  This year the U. S. market has gone straight up since the election.  More trading data is needed for our algorithms to calculate proper buy zones.  For this reason the list of stocks to buy is not included in this post.

We have the list ready. We are simply waiting for more data to properly calculate buy zones.  Please stay tuned.

The list will be made available only to paying subscribers of ZYX Buy Change Alert.

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