Chartered market technicians pay attention to cyclical trends and, at times, find ways to exploit historical patterns such as the Santa Claus rally. They tend to do so repeatedly over time and by limiting both the amount of risk and reward they take on via position sizing, stop orders, and cutting losses short if positions go against them. These speculators also use technical patterns in particular indexes and carefully determine their planned entry and exit points.
None of this is useful for most investors who do not have the trading experience to manage risk in such short time frames. For buy-and-hold investors and those saving for retirement in 401(k) plans, for example, the Santa Claus rally does little to either help or hurt them over the long term. It is an interesting news headline happening on the periphery but not a reason to become either more bullish or bearish. A better strategy is to maintain a long-term investment strategy and not be tempted by the promise of Santa Claus rallies or January effects.
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$Brinker International (EAT.US)$ Brinker International (EAT) — Brinker said its profit margins have been dented by higher labor and commodities costs. The parent of Chili’s and other restaurant chains said the surge in the Covid delta variant exacerbated those issues. Brinker tumbled 13.7% in premarket trading.
$WD-40 (WDFC.US)$ WD-40 (WDFC) — WD-40 shares slumped 11% in the premarket after the lubricant maker reported a lower-than-expected profit and revenue for its latest quarter. CEO Garry Ridge said the pandemic had created abnormal swings in the company’s sales results.
$Tegna (TGNA.US)$ Tegna (TGNA) — Tegna gained 1.2% in premarket trading following a Bloomberg report that media mogul Byron Allen has received additional backing for his $23 per share offer for the TV broadcasting company.

$Qraft AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Momentum ETF (AMOM.US)$ an exchange-traded fund driven by artificial intelligence, has acquired new stakes in $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ , $Netflix (NFLX.US)$ and $Autodesk (ADSK.US)$ , while entirely divesting its holdings in $Intel (INTC.US)$ , $PayPal (PYPL.US)$ and $Moderna (MRNA.US)$ .
What Happened: The ETF’s latest portfolio after rebalancing in early December showed that it has also entirely divested its holdings in technology company $IBM Corp (IBM.US)$ and oil giant $ConocoPhillips (COP.US)$ .
The ETF, which has assets under management of $27.07 million, has a history of accurately predicting the price movements of Tesla’s shares.
The fund now has electric vehicle maker Tesla as its largest investment with a 7.7% weighting, followed by streaming giant Netflix with a weighting of 6.8% and biotechnology firm $Merck & Co (MRK.US)$ with 5.1% weighting.
The other two stocks that make up the top five holdings in the AMOM portfolio are software company Autodesk with a 2.5% weighting and glucose monitoring systems maker $DexCom (DXCM.US)$  with 2.4%.
Prior to the rebalancing, the ETF had Intel, PayPal, Moderna, IBM and ConocoPhillips as its five largest holdings.

Indicators in support of long-term growth:
- Strong community of developers and the high-quality of the products
- Overall expected growth of the cloud market
- Above-average management; CEO has been with the Company since 2015; one of the co-founders acts as CTO
- Repeat sale is expected given the nature of the business (Switching the provider is difficult for customers).
- Straight-forward and proper accounting policies (e.g., capitalization policy only applies to internally-used software, and all R&D relating to products is expensed). $HashiCorp (HCP.US)$

On the last trading day, the NASDAQ Composite index dipped 1.71%, while the S&P 500 index declined 0.72%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.00%.
On Thursday, there was no traditional IPOs filed and three new stocks officially listed for trading. Buffett-backed fintech unicorn NuBank soared 14.78% in first day of trading, valued at $47.61 billion.
GGV-backed cloud infrastructure platformHashiCorprose 6.49% in its market debut, valued at $15.24 billion.
Nu Holdings, founded in 2013, is a Brazilian digital bank backed by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
NuBank is one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms (based on number of customers) and the latest of several fast-growing financial services companies - often serving customers overlooked by banks - grabbing investors' attention.
As of September 30, 2021, It had 48.1 million customers, across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, including approximately 28% of the population of Brazil aged 15 and above.
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HashiCorp, founded in 2012, is an open-source software company providing cloud infrastructure and data center management solutions.
The company has built its products using an open-core software development model, and all of its products are developed as open-source projects.
HashiCorp is a leading provider of multi-cloud infrastructure automation. The company helps developers manage their cloud infrastructure across major public clouds, including Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
The Covid-19 pandemic did little to set back HashiCorp, which considers itself “remote-first,” with a globally distributed workforce of 1,500 people.
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ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.(NYSE:ZIM)is a global, asset-light container liner shipping company with leadership positions in niche markets.
Founded in Israel in 1945, it is one of the oldest shipping liners, with over 75 years of experience, providing customers with innovative seaborne transportation and logistics services.
It seeks to maximize operational efficiencies while increasing the profitability by leveraging its asset-light model and benefitting from a flexible cost structure. It has also developed a variety of digital tools to better understand customers' needs through data analysis including business and artificial intelligence.
ZIM Shipping went public on January 27th, 2021. As of December 20th, 2021, it has a listed-to-date gain of 261%, with a market capital of $6.42 billion.
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