Mark Hulbert: Sell in May? Not so fast. ‘Stay and play’ this summer in safer stock-market sectors

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You don’t have to sell all of your stocks in order to take advantage of the U.S. stock market’s “Sell In May and Go Away” seasonal pattern.

Instead, shift your stock portfolio away from the market sectors most-sensitive to the pattern and into others that are relatively immune. Then you can participate in any gains the market produces this summer while protecting yourself from the full brunt of any losses.

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