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A few things that you may want to know include:
* The Dow has been down only three Novembers in the last 14 post-election years
* Today starts of the “Best Six Months” of the year. Investing in the Dow Jones Industrial Average between November 1st and April 30th and then switching into fixed income for the other six months has produced a +7.6% gain versus the +0.6% gain since 1950.
* Historically, November is the number one best performance month historically for the S&P 500. It is also the number two best performance month historically for the Nasdaq since 1971.
As you can see from CXO Advisory’s trading calendar, November tends to start off strong, pull back, and then close with a nice gain:
We’ll see how this trends play out this month. As many of you know, September did a great job of producing gains in what tends to be a tough month for the market and October did as well until the last couple of weeks.
by Chuck Kirk |
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