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[pdx5]

No sense getting greedy here. Trying to keep things simple. The partial long positions I was sitting on since Oct 2006 have appreciated enough and so my sell orders are in with the mutual fund company at today's closing prices. As Baron Rothschild said, "I got rich by selling too early". If he could do it may be it's not a bad philosophy. Now I am 100% flat and content to earn just under 5% in short term money market funds. Will look for getting long again in fall. If this seasonality approach works, it will sure make my life easy. I hate filling out long schedule-D forms anyway. Now it's time to work on lowering my handicap

[OEXCHAOS]

If I may, I'd like to point out that Sy Harding added an MACD overly and greatly improved the results. They talk about it in the Stock Traders' Almanac. I use something similar in combination with sentiment and breadth and it works pretty well. The MACD allows you to continue on in an up trend past May 1 and similarly you can stay out of a nasty Bear market after Oct/November. Mark

[stocks]

May is the month whose performance has changed the most in the last 2 decades versus the previous 3 decades. Rank by % change in the Dow since 1980: Nov Apr Dec Jan May Oct Jul Feb Mar Jun Aug negative Sep negative

[pdx5]

Mark, appreciate that info. I will check into it.