Selling losing stocks now is a smart tax move. Buying them back before January is even smarter.

  • 📰 MarketWatch
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 65 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 29%
  • Publisher: 97%

Sverige Nyheter Nyheter

Sverige Senaste nytt,Sverige Rubriker

OPINION: Stocks sold in December tend to bounce back strongly in January, Mark Hulbert writes.

I’m referring to the sale of stocks you’re holding at a loss in order to offset the capital gains you have previously realized so far this year, and on which you will otherwise have to pay tax this coming April.

Many are not aware of this bounce back tendency, and so therefore miss out on the second half of this two-pronged year-end strategy. But it’s quite pronounced, as you can see from the chart below, which reports the average monthly returns in December and January of the trailing year’s worst- and best-performing stocks. To put losing stocks’ rebound in context, consider that on an annualized basis they produce the equivalent of a 55% gain in January.

What if you don’t want spend December out of the stocks you’d otherwise consider selling for tax-loss purposes? The only solution I know of is to find other securities that are highly correlated with them, and to substitute these new ones during the 30-day wash-sale period. To the extent your substitutes perform as well as your original holdings, you won’t be missing out on any gains while nevertheless being able to harvest tax losses.

You won’t always be able to find a security that is as highly correlated as Energy Select Sector SPDR is to Exxon Mobil, but your goal should be to find one with a correlation coefficient of 0.7 of higher. From a statistical point of view, that means you’re finding a security whose gyrations can explain or predict at least half of the movements of your tax loss sale candidate.

 

Tack för din kommentar. Din kommentar kommer att publiceras efter att ha granskats.

must sell when it says out

lmfao but i thought y’all said december was always bullish?

Vi har sammanfattat den här nyheten så att du kan läsa den snabbt. Om du är intresserad av nyheterna kan du läsa hela texten här. Läs mer:

 /  🏆 3. in SE

Sverige Senaste nytt, Sverige Rubriker

Similar News:Du kan också läsa nyheter som liknar den här som vi har samlat in från andra nyhetskällor.

How A Sleepy Southern Chain Became One Of The Pandemic's Top Performing StocksDillard's, the department store owned by a secretive clan, has hit 50-year highs, far outpacing rivals like Nordstom, Macy's and Kohl's.
Källa: Forbes - 🏆 394. / 53 Läs mer »

How A Sleepy Southern Chain Became One Of The Pandemic's Top Performing StocksDillard's, the department store owned by a secretive clan, has hit 50-year highs, far outpacing rivals like Nordstom, Macy's and Kohl's.
Källa: Forbes - 🏆 394. / 53 Läs mer »

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Chewy, Lululemon, Beyond Meat, Peloton & moreThese are the stocks posting the largest moves before the bell. NVAX novavax Novavax $NVAX ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️♥️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️STRONG BUY NOVAVAX INC.
Källa: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 Läs mer »

Stocks close lower on Wall Street as rally momentum coolsA sell-off on Wall Street left stocks broadly lower Thursday, giving back some of the market's gains from a three-day winning streak.
Källa: latimes - 🏆 11. / 82 Läs mer »

How A Sleepy Southern Chain Became One Of The Pandemic's Top Performing StocksDillard's, the department store owned by a secretive clan, has hit 50-year highs, far outpacing rivals like Nordstom, Macy's and Kohl's. “Fifty decades later” is 500 years...
Källa: Forbes - 🏆 394. / 53 Läs mer »

Meme stocks continue to tumble as retail investors digest so much newsGameStop and AMC Entertainment finish week on very sour notes as cloudy earnings, sudden CEO distrust, short-seller investigations, and hot social media... Retail is not selling meme stocks. Stop reporting that we are. We aren’t. Fake news. I already proved that naked shorting exists on at least one stock on Webull using its API, legally, so we don’t need the NFT dividend. And insider sells are a normal thing. We’re good. Suck it
Källa: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Läs mer »