No, you should not “sell in May and go away”

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Rupert Hargreaves
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“Sell in May (and buy back in November) has ‘worked’, but the hit rate is often poor: The return for most risk assets between May and October has been lower than the rest of the year (UST returns show the reverse). But for many markets, the hit rate of ‘Sell in May’ is barely better than a coin-toss, and the strategy hasn’t worked for MSCI ACWI in seven of the last ten years.” Morgan Stanley’s Cross-Asset Dispatches research note looked at the age-old “sell in May and go away” strategy last week, and found that while this advice does make…

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for ValueWalk