{"id":213491,"date":"2026-05-29T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/uncategorized\/sell-this-may-no-way\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:38:15","slug":"sell-this-may-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.eu\/campus\/traders-insight\/ibkr-market-insights\/sell-this-may-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell This May?\u00a0 No Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSell in May and go away\u201d is a quaint market adage that we haven\u2019t heard much this month.&nbsp; After a historically stupendous two-month run, even slight advances in key indices can bring us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/sell-in-may-and-go-away-but-go-where\/?query=sell%20in%20may&amp;requestId=82323ab6-980d-4c60-b75b-577b06a237d0\">trifecta of new records<\/a>, perpetuating the positive momentum and investor sentiment that has driven the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) higher for nine straight weeks.&nbsp; Selling this May \u2013 or in fact, many of the recent prior Mays \u2013 has not been a winning trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, SPX has experienced only one down May in the last 13 years.&nbsp; Only July and November can make that same claim.&nbsp; The only prior down May in that period was in 2019, when it fell 6.58%.&nbsp; In fact, each of the last two Mays has featured advances of similar magnitudes to this one.&nbsp; Furthermore, each of the prior three Mays, including 2023\u2019s very slight upturn, was followed by substantial gains in June.&nbsp; As the table below shows, only three June swoons have occurred since 2013 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"364\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/image-85.png\" 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2, 2022.\u00a0 That was the start of one of the worst Mays in recent history, when the index eked out the smallest of gains \u2013 just 0.01%.\u00a0 It also followed an April when SPX fell by 8.8% and preceded an 8.4% drop in June.\u00a0 That was indeed a wonderful May to go away, and I\u2019m pleased to see that our \u201cwhere to go\u201d was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Maybe the best place to go is boring old cash.&nbsp; Yes, in an inflationary environment it loses its purchasing power, but it is losing it more slowly than other assets.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll file that under \u201csometimes even a blind squirrel finds an acorn.\u201d&nbsp; Unfortunately, that offers no guidance about what to expect going forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History is not a particularly helpful guide.&nbsp; In a simplistic sense, we can say that it rarely pays to be anything other than long, since SPX has been down in only 7 of the 41 months in the table above, and only 3 of the 13 prior Junes.&nbsp; So, just go long and stay long, right?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recent example of an April\/May period with returns similar to the current one was in 2020.&nbsp; June 2020 was a solid month too, with a 1.84% gain.&nbsp; Unfortunately, there are huge, concrete differences between then and now.&nbsp; Remember, that was the immediate aftermath of the Covid-induced bear market, and that period featured a dual salvo of massive monetary and fiscal stimuli in response to the crisis.&nbsp; This two-month stretch featured a change to a rate hiking regime from one that anticipated rate cuts, though it has also featured sharp bumps in reported and anticipated earnings in a wide range of companies, primarily those that benefit from AI-related largesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We found two other examples this century with similar setups.&nbsp; In 2009, SPX rose 9.39% in April and 5.31% in May.&nbsp; That led to a mere 0.02% rise in June.&nbsp; Remember that this was occurring at the end of the Global Financial Crisis.&nbsp; Stocks bottomed in March after a bout of then-huge stimuli put a stop to a massive two-year bear market.&nbsp; In 2003, SPX rose 8.1% and 5.9% in April and May, respectively, which led to a 1.13% gain in June.&nbsp; Remember that the 2001-02 period also featured a bear market, and that recovery began in March of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, we can\u2019t find a recent example of such a solid April-May period that did not result from measures that were designed to stem a prior bear market.&nbsp; The last prior example was in 1997, when we saw April, May, and June gains of 5.84%, 5.86%, and 4.35% respectively, and those continued into July and beyond.&nbsp; There are certainly plenty of current comparisons to the internet bubble era, but we need to consider whether one from 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