The Dow’s Four-Year Cycle

With voting tomorrow, I thought I’d post this chart again. This is the Dow’s average four-year cycle since 1896.

I ran the entire numbers set from May 1896 to September 2011. Except for the 12 months preceding a mid-term election, the Dow generally does well. There’s another slow period for the nine months preceding Memorial Day of the election year.

Posted by on November 5th, 2012 at 11:39 am


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