There is a lot of noise surrounding the period between Christmas and the start of the new year. Santa Claus rally this, end of 2016 predictions that, what worked this year, what didn’t….. The truth is, most of that doesn’t matter and is just a lot of air-time filling, click baiting noise. Sure, if Santa Claus doesn’t show up and the U.S. Stock Market doesn’t rally during the last 5 trading days of the year and first 2 of January, bad things tend to happen. Fine. But end of year predictions are always wrong and they’re just a sell side marketing gimmick that the financial media eats up and loves to promote. It’s just noise. As far as what worked this year and what didn’t – it’s too late now anyway, so who cares. We want to look forward don’t we? Aren’t we here to make money?
What we really want to focus on during this period of the year is [Read more…]