Santa Rally...
Definition:
A Santa Claus rally refers to the sustained increases found in the stock market during the last five trading days of December through the first two trading days of January. Since 1950, during this seven-day trading window, the S&P 500 has gained an average of 1.3% and been positive 79% of the time.
"Despite all of the high frequency trading and algorithmic trading and the velocity of the market these days...patterns [like the Santa Claus rally' continue to persist," said Jeffrey A. Hirsch, editor of the annual Stock Trader's Almanac his father, Yale Hirsch, invented the term in 1972.
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