It's time to sell in May, then keep on selling

It is time for the tired, old and utterly irrelevant adage 'Sell in May, go away' to reappear. Traditionally, City gents used to declare a truce and pack up for a summer season of sporting and social delights ' Chelsea flower show, followed by Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, a spot of cricket and a day or two banging away at the birds on the moors. Business would resume, by common agreement, on St Swithan's day. But with our modern 24/7 focus, there is no such larking about. Languid investors are merely sitting targets for their predatory colleagues or the next bubble looking for somewhere to b...