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A Quick Glossary of Stock Market Holiday Terms (14:22)

By Lawrence G. McMillan

This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 14, No. 22 on November 23, 2005. 

As we enter the holiday season, the media will mix and match terms referring to the various Holiday-related trends of the stock market. They rarely get it straight, and as a result, they wind up confusing a lot of people. Here are the major ones:

Holiday Seasonality (20:23)

By Lawrence G. McMillan

This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 20, No. 23 on December 9, 2011. 

This is the time of year when even the media talks about seasonality. Of course, that doesn’t mean they understand what they’re talking about. Why would it be different on this subject than any other?

We have frequently mentioned the positive seasonality that takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s unclear exactly why this happens, but it does. In fact, this particular seasonality doesn’t even have a cute name. But it certainly seems to work.