{"id":58062,"date":"2023-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:01:35","slug":"sell-in-may-and-go-on-vacay-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"rbc_my_money_matter","link":"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/my-money-matters\/inspired-investor\/ideas-and-motivation\/sell-in-may-and-go-on-vacay-not-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell in May and Go on Vacay? Not so fast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-single-article-header\">\n\t<section class=\"section-grey cover pad-t-hlf\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-inner w-half w-mob-full centered-margin cover section-grey pad-tb-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inline-block pill-container pill-taxonomies\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mar-b-hlf mob-mar-b snipe pill is-style-blue-pill\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"primary-taxonomy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/my-money-matters\/topic\/stocks\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Stocks<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"mar-b-hlf mar-t-0 mob-pad-lr-hlf h2 has-black-color\">Sell in May and Go on Vacay? Not so fast&#8230;<\/h1><p class=\"mar-b-0 mob-pad-lr-hlf author-text\">By Moiz Divan, CFA, Portfolio Advisor at RBC InvestEase<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-image-wrapper pos-rel\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-82.jpg?quality=80\" class=\" cover-image  wp-post-image\" alt=\"An empty Muskoka chair on a small beach beside a calm lake at sunset.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-82.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-82.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-82.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\t<div class=\"article mar-t-dbl\">\n\t\t\t\t<section>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"section-inner socials-section\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"top-socials-bar mob-mar-b-hlf\">    <div class=\"social-links mob-mar-b-hlf mob-mar-t-hlf\">\n            <a class=\"social-button-wrapper sharing-custom sharing-email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Sell in May and Go on Vacay? Not so fast&#8230; &#038;body=Hi, I thought you might be interested in this article from RBC My Money Matters: https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/my-money-matters\/inspired-investor\/ideas-and-motivation\/sell-in-may-and-go-on-vacay-not-so-fast\/\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rbc-blocks\/assets\/img\/icons\/icon-email.svg\"\n          alt=\"envelope icon\">\n        <span>\n          Email        <\/span>\n      <\/a>\n      <div class=\"social-button-wrapper sharing-copy-wrapper\">\n        <button class=\"sharing-custom sharing-copy\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/my-money-matters\/inspired-investor\/ideas-and-motivation\/sell-in-may-and-go-on-vacay-not-so-fast\/\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rbc-blocks\/assets\/img\/icons\/icon-related.svg\"\n            alt=\"copy icon\">\n          <span id=\"sharing-copyUrl-Label\">\n            Copy URL          <\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <input type=\"text\" class=\"sharing-copy-text\" aria-labelledby=\"sharing-copyUrl-Label\">\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"section-inner w-half w-mob-full centered-margin pad-tb-0 mob-mar-t-hlf mob-mar-b\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"cover-pub-line text-xs mar-b-hlf\">Published May 4, 2023 \u2022 5 Min Read<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner w-half w-mob-full\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<p>Do you have a go-to catch phrase for spring? Maybe it&#8217;s &#8220;April showers bring May flowers&#8221; or &#8220;spring fever.&#8221; For investors, a popular adage that springs up at this time of year is &#8220;sell in May and go away.&#8221; But what does it mean? And is it beneficial for investors? Let&#8217;s dig in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, it doesn&#8217;t mean that you should sell off your worldly possessions in May and take off on vacation \u2013 as fun as that sounds! In fact, it&#8217;s a market-timing strategy that investors have debated for decades, and refers to selling off investments in the spring and then getting back into the markets around Halloween when stock markets are presumed to start performing better. Fun fact: that&#8217;s why &#8220;sell in May&#8221; is also known as the &#8220;Halloween Indicator.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horse races and Halloween: A quick history lesson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The original is &#8220;Sell in May and go away; Don&#8217;t come back &#8217;til St. Leger Day&#8221; and the sing-song expression originated in Britain when the financial district structured business around sporting and social events. St. Leger Day is the final horse race in the British Triple Crown and takes place in September to mark the end of the summer social season. The first meaning behind the adage was to sell stocks before the summer holidays, when businesses would traditionally slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theories abound about whether it&#8217;s best to &#8220;sell in May&#8221; or &#8220;stay and play.&#8221; The first has investors jump out of markets for the summer while the second has investors stay invested without interruption. Original observations were that markets typically perform better between November and April than they do between May and October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does &#8216;sell in May&#8217; really work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine if this investing strategy has delivered outsized returns to investors in recent years, let&#8217;s look at returns for the S&amp;P 500 Index from 2008 to 2022 and segment returns from November to April and returns from May to October (i.e., &#8220;sell in May&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Chart_Sell_in_May.png\" alt=\" S&amp;P 500 Index from 2008 to 2022 \" class=\"wp-image-47549\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Factset. Note that the November to April time period runs from November 1 of the previous year to April 30 of the year for which the data is presented. Chart created April, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average rate of return from November to April is 5.40 per cent and from May to October is 2.04 per cent. At first glance, this would support the &#8220;sell in May&#8221; theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there&#8217;s more to this story. To better understand the implications of such an approach, we need to also compare the returns of a &#8220;sell in May&#8221; strategy against a &#8220;stay and play&#8221; strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What if investors &#8216;stay and play&#8217; in the market?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For &#8220;sell in May,&#8221; let&#8217;s assume that you sell at the end of April and sit in cash between October and May. For simplicity, we assume that you would not earn interest on this cash. For &#8220;stay and play,&#8221; you would stay invested in the S&amp;P 500 for the entire period (November 1 of the previous year to October 31 of the current year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the chart below, we see that &#8220;stay and play&#8221; compares favorably to &#8220;sell in May.&#8221; The &#8220;sell in May&#8221; approach returned an average annual return of 5.4 per cent per year, while &#8220;stay and play&#8221; returned an average of 7.86 per cent over this 15-year time period. In other words, &#8220;stay and play&#8221; outperformed &#8220;sell in May&#8221; by an average of 2.46 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcroyalbank.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/09\/Chart_Sell_in_May_vs_Stay_and_Play.png\" alt=\" 'stay and play' in the market\" class=\"wp-image-47550\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Factset. Note that the November to April time period runs from November 1 of the previous year to April 30 of the year for which the data is presented. Chart created April, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should investors &#8216;sell in May and go away&#8217;?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While the S&amp;P 500 has typically appeared to do better in the winter-to-spring period, performance varies dramatically over the years. Over the 15-year period we examined, investors would have benefitted by staying invested. Additionally, our analysis does not incorporate dividends that you might earn on some investments, which are often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbcgam.com\/en\/ca\/learn-plan\/investment-basics\/the-power-of-dividends\/detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a key contributor to overall returns<\/a> over the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timing the market can be a risky approach. Just because markets have exhibited certain trends in the past, we shouldn&#8217;t expect they will perform the same way in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempting to &#8220;time the market&#8221; by deciding when to buy and sell your investments is not only risky but can also lead you to stay on the sidelines rather than investing your money. There&#8217;s no such thing as a crystal ball and we simply can&#8217;t time our investments perfectly. 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