Sell in May – But Don’t Go Away From the U.S. Stock Market

If you embrace the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away" as an investing strategy, you could end up with a bad case of the U.S. stock market summer blues, a new research study has found. That concept is based on the notion that the May-to-November span provides a weak environment for U.S. stock market investors. According to Jon Markman, a best-selling author and contributing writer to Money Morning , that viewpoint started gaining traction in late April . And why not? The major U.S. indexes were already up a lot more than anyone expected , making that a seemingly convenient point to take profits. Those who didn't follow that strategy probably now wish that they had.