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Ted Allrich is the founder of The Online Investor and author of Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth And Sleep Well At Night. In this weekly column, he offers advice to investors who are just getting started.

Not funny, ha, ha. Funny as in odd. Stocks act differently between now and the beginning of next year. Some stocks move for no apparent reason. Others don’t move even when news is good. Here are a few reasons why.

It’s time for investors to take losses. And there are plenty of those in housing stocks, financials and biotechs. Other industries have been hit as well this year but those stand out. You’ll see many of these stocks drift down over the next few weeks as investors dump them to either take a loss to balance against a gain or decide to move into other stocks, unless there’s a specific announcement by a company that is good news. Even then, there may not be as strong a reponse as you’d expect.

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