The Bad Time of the Year for Stocks

We’re nearing the bad time of the year for the stock market. I crunched all the numbers going back to the start of the Dow in 1896, and I found that the index has historically peaked on September 6th. From there, it pulls back an average of 2.51% to October 29th.

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Historically, there’s some sluggishness in May, and a drop in early December, but nothing comes close to the September-October slowdown.

As usual, I caution against basing any investment decision on this type of data. I simply think these are interesting trends.

Posted by on September 3rd, 2013 at 11:11 am


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