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Sell in May and go away: fact or fallacy?

By Prieur du Plessis, on May 3rd, 2008 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money, Stocks

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Besides “buy low and sell high” few other axioms are more widely propagated than “sell in May and go away”. This post investigates whether this axiom actually has any scientific basis at all. [...]

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