If you abide by this theory, you would sell your stocks in late April or early May (hopefully
realizing nice gains) and sit largely in cash until the fall where you would buy back into the stock market.
Not exact matches
Should I elect to sell at today's prices, I could
realize a
nice capital
gain because the other stock market participants are willing to pay more for each ownership unit than they were a year or two ago.
If I owed IBM common stock, it would be
nice to click on one menu to see the dollar amount of the IBM
gains that are
realized - and what my current unrealized
gains are for that security.
Should I elect to sell at today's prices, I could
realize a
nice capital
gain because the other stock market participants are willing to pay more for each ownership unit than they were a year or two ago.
While I did
realize a very
nice profit, I left several thousand dollars on the table because I acted out of fear of losing my
gain as opposed to reason.