Tax loss selling

[shipwreckedandalone]

 Anybody ever found research showing which weeks in Nov/Dec are the heaviest tax loss selling weeks or days? 
Most institutional selling is done by the Christmas break.

Would be an interesting (and useful) study.

[yogibearbull]

Procrastinators wait & retail tax-loss selling continues through December. Institutional tax-loss selling is mostly done by October 31 when the mutual funds are allowed to close books for the year (Nov 1 - Oct 31), & most do (but not all).

New Year Eve is on Friday this year & that is a regular market day.

Double-up & sell the older lots on Dec 31 should work through all of November.

Switching into something similar but not identical will work until December 31 market close. Note that it is the trade date that counts (not the settle date).

[shipwreckedandalone]

I can never tell rhyme or reason from year to year.
Today I am seeing unusually large selling pressure on some large caps stocks on my watch list near 52 week lows while the S&P is up slightly.

Makes me wonder what we will see in Nov Dec going forward (31 trading days left) because of the big unrealized gains people have.... some since 2009 with possible inflation looming in 2022.
Large cap tax loss candidates may get magnified since fewer of them.

[xray]

yogibearbull,
Your:
Switching into something similar but not identical will work until December 31 market close. Note that it is the trade date that counts (not the settle date).

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Some investors might not kno that what we are talking about is "Wash-Sales" for taxable accounts. Many investors have heard or read about the term but were afraid to ask what it is. We might have to write a book for all of the probabilities in the use of it....
Thanks for the input for any new investors who are not aware of differentiating between taxable and non-taxable accounts....

Live Long and Prosper....

[oldskeet]

Hi guys, Generally, investors will have some losses that they can take against their gains. However, for me, currently, I have no losses that I can take to off-set the capital gains that I am expecting to be paid out this year from a good number of my mutual funds. This could push me into a higher tax bracket along with having to pay higher medicare premiums. Such is life. Old_Skeet

[shipwreckedandalone]

I continued to see what appeared to be heavier than usual tax loss selling every day thru yesterday and the previous weeks. The close yesterday and AH trading saw an uptick in buying. I will never figure out the 'hows and whys' of certain market conditions?? Will be interesting to see if selling continues next Mon and Tuesday or if they finished by Thanksgiving.

[oldskeet]

Hi shipwreckedandalone , As I write early Friday morning November 26, 2021 the major equity stock futures are a glowing hot "Red!" Seems bonds might have another day of sunshine. Is it buckel up time?  Seems many might be selling into this downdraft today ... but, not me.  Remember, the S&P 500 Index is up about 25% year to date.  I am sure some investors (and traders) are wanting to book some profit should the slope get slippery.  Perhaps, a stock market correction is in the making.  OS

[Chahta]

Question is “another BTD opportunity forming?”