Thanksgiving Seasonal Trading 2025 (Preview)

Posted on November 25, 2025 - 9:52am

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By Lawrence G. McMillan

We have several seasonal trades around Thanksgiving, and we’ll get into those more in next week’s newsletter, but for now we want to prepare to enter the first part, which is the “Post-Thanksgiving Seasonal.” That trade is based on the fact that the market normally rallies right after Thanksgiving. Furthermore, the rally is typically in the small-caps, which have already started to accelerate and outperform this week...

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