🚨The vast majority of stock gains come outside trading hours
Over the last 31 years, 98% of the S&P 500 gains have occurred during overnight hours
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Most of the S&P 500 gains this year came outside the trading hours. The index has advanced by 23.7% in overnight trading while only by 3.2% during trading days.
This trend has been even more evident in the long term. Over the last 3 decades, overnight returns have hit 1090%, compared to only 16% gains during the trading hours.
To put this differently, a strategy of buying at the close and selling at the open has widely outperformed buying at the open and selling at the close.
This is because most major events impacting the stock market take place outside of regular trading hours from 9:30 AM ET to 4 PM ET. This includes US economic data releases, earnings reports, and conference calls as well as news coming from Europe and Asia.
This is absolutely remarkable, to say the least.
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