Good Lord. Here were the search trends for the nation in 2021. I seriously wonder about this place.
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Harvest the Chaff?
This time of year, investors are dumping their worst performers for what is called tax-loss harvesting. For instance, if you have amazing capital gains on, let’s say, TSLA, but you had the misfortune of buying a bunch of HOOD when they went public, you might choose to dump your HOOD garbage to offset some of those sweet TSLA gains during tax times. Thus, the lousiest stocks have especially bad Decembers.
With that in mind, here are a hodgepodge of particularly-battered issues which you might consider as bounce plays with the looming new year. I’m not touching any of these, but I could certainly make an argument for bounces – – even substantial ones – – once trading resumes on Monday, with tax-loss harvesting behind us.
(more…)And Nothing Else
Welcome, Slopers, to both the last day of the year and, ipso facto, the last trading day of the year. It will be a full trading day, because God knows that no one celebrates New Year’s Eve, whereas we’re already gearing up for the new Juneteenth holiday, at which time all markets will be completely closed.
Last night’s hard tumble has, by federal statute, been undone, and we are precipitously poised beneath a very clean topping patter on the /ES on a minute bar basis.
