Dump it all on Q1

• More than 12,000 stores are expected to close in 2018 — up from roughly 9,000 in 2017, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

• A rash of bankruptcy filings and announcements to close stores are expected at the start of the year, when retailers are flush with cash from the holiday season.

• Among the companies most likely to file for bankruptcy within the next year are Sears, Bon-Ton Stores, Bebe Stores, Destination Maternity Corp., and Stein Mart.

• The closings would push hundreds of shopping malls to the brink of death.

Go for low in Q1, the loss declaration quarter,. Make it a tradition.  It keeps the blue bar away, but everyone has to get dead cat bounce in Q2.  I have 50 million households following the plot,. we we beat the blue bar every time.