Comments on: The January Effect: Is It Real? http://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/investing/january-effect-real/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elaine @ O2 ideas roomhttp://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/investing/january-effect-real/#comment-61705 Elaine @ O2 ideas room Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:25:57 +0000 http://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/?p=4459#comment-61705 Glad to hear your view on the reality of The January Effect, David. One of our O2 ideas room bloggers, Aidan Bodkin, has been outlining this for us in Ireland; and we’ve been trying to understand if we will see this happening here this Jan 2010.Thanks again for posting,Elaine @ O2 IdeasRoom Glad to hear your view on the reality of The January Effect, David. One of our O2 ideas room bloggers, Aidan Bodkin, has been outlining this for us in Ireland; and we’ve been trying to understand if we will see this happening here this Jan 2010.

Thanks again for posting,

Elaine @ O2 IdeasRoom

]]> By: Penny Stockshttp://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/investing/january-effect-real/#comment-61667 Penny Stocks Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:01:58 +0000 http://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/?p=4459#comment-61667 Traders like to play trends, use historical data, it can be a self fullfilling proficy. Start of the new year, what to invest in and they look at historical data and say XXXX stock does well in January we shoud invest. The cycle continues. Traders like to play trends, use historical data, it can be a self fullfilling proficy. Start of the new year, what to invest in and they look at historical data and say XXXX stock does well in January we shoud invest. The cycle continues.

]]> By: Mike Piperhttp://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/investing/january-effect-real/#comment-61657 Mike Piper Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:07:43 +0000 http://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/?p=4459#comment-61657 While I'm not one to believe that markets are 100% efficient (in that all stocks are perfectly priced at all moments), I definitely think that the market has a strong efficiency-seeking tendency.Any trading strategy that reliably beats the market, then becomes famous (as the January effect did) is sure to stop working. While I’m not one to believe that markets are 100% efficient (in that all stocks are perfectly priced at all moments), I definitely think that the market has a strong efficiency-seeking tendency.

Any trading strategy that reliably beats the market, then becomes famous (as the January effect did) is sure to stop working.

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