Australian stocks: Buy in July?
By Colin Twiggs
July 6th, 2015 5:00 p.m. AET (3:00 a.m. EDT)
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Australian stocks typically encounter tax loss selling in June (before end of the financial year), followed by a rally in July/August that often carries through into the next calendar year. Sale of poor performing stocks before EOFY withdraws money from the market and effectively lowers all stock prices. After the year end, investors start to accumulate stocks again, lifting the market.
A monthly chart of the ASX 200 Accumulation Index since 2006 shows 2 years where the rally started in August (dark green), 5 years where the rally started in July (light green), and 2 years (red) where the EOFY rally disappointed, continuing a down-trend.
This year is complicated by turmoil in Greece and China. July 2011 also had its Greek drama. Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote but was eventually replaced by Lucas Papademos, former governor of the Bank of Greece and vice-president of the European Central Bank. S&P also downgraded US government debt at the start of August 2011.
What does July 2015 have in store for us?
I don't have a crystal ball, but breakout above the trend channel on the ASX 200 daily chart would indicate the correction is over, suggesting another advance. Rising 21-day twiggs Money Flow indicates mild buying pressure.
But it would be prudent to wait for confirmation, in case it turns into a bull trap like 2011.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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