Market Digest: CIEN, SLF, DOCU, DASH

Argus

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Dec 12, 2025

Summary

Argus CEO John Eade precocious wrote astir an important improvement and accidental for investors: year-end tax-loss harvesting. That is the selling of investments astatine a nonaccomplishment earlier December 31 successful bid to offset superior gains and perchance trim wide taxation liability. The strategy is an important portion of year-end fiscal planning. It takes subject to merchantability stocks, however. Many times, investors are reluctant to merchantability stocks that are down owed to hopes that a turnaround is coming. In this case, an alternate strategy tin beryllium to merchantability losers and bargain a akin banal oregon related manufacture ETF to seizure imaginable aboriginal upside. But beware of the IRS taxation rules, arsenic the alleged lavation merchantability regularisation prohibits selling an concern for a nonaccomplishment and replacing it with the aforesaid oregon 'substantially identical' concern 30 days earlier oregon aft the sale. A large mode to instrumentality vantage of this 'artificial' selling is to look astatine the large indices connected a daily/weekly ground and find stocks that person the weakest charts (relative strength) and that are getting punished for nary evident reason. Put different way, look for the anemic getting weaker successful the lack of immoderate important quality specified arsenic an EPS report, little guidance, oregon expert downgrades. On Tuesday, December 9, AZO