What January 2018 Looks Like. Going back over the past five years, looking at stock market vol indicators... 2012 ending was positive for 2013 January. 2013 positive for 2014 2014 negative for 2015 2015 negative for 2016 2016 positive for 2017 2017 positive for 2018 ...this of course would be expected given being in a perfect fall season.