i'm reading this carefully. hmmm. is the consenses finally getting da pix?
STOCK TRADER'S ALMANAC 2008:
- January Barometer predicts year's course with .754 batting average - Every down January's first five days preceded full-year gains 86.1% of the time; in election years, only years 1988 & 1956 have been wrong - November, December, and January constitute the year's best three-month span, a 4.9% S&P gain - "January Effect" now starts in mid-December and favors small-cap stocks. Worse January 1960 -8.4% Worse week in January was 1/24/03 -5.3% Worse Day in Jan -6.9% 1-8-88
Key support on the DJI 12,517.94 12,501.76
To have a strong up year in 2008, we need to close January above 12657.20 or we will have a bad year.