Thanksgiving Seasonal Trading 2025 - Part 3 (Preview)

By Lawrence G. McMillan

Last week, I didn’t get all the statistics into the newsletter regarding the post-Thanksgiving trading, plus other related T-day trades.  So, here’s a quick summary updated with current data.

First, we’ll repeat the one table that was in last week’s newsletter: Buy Russell 2000 ($RUT; IWM) on the close of day before Thanksgiving and holding through the second trading day of the new year:

$RUT seems to be outperforming $SPX this year so far, but there’s a long way to go.

The following table shows the results of the three days prior to Thanksgiving. In most years, these have been dull, with the occasional large up or down day. Not this year (included in the table). By far the largest gain on record for the three days in question (210 $SPX points in total). All years back to 1990 are included in this table...