57th edition of the gold standard in US stock market trend, patterns, and cycles

In Stock Trader's Almanac 2024, veteran trader and market strategist Jeffrey Hirsch delivers the latest edition of the most trusted source used by traders around the world to make sense of the complexities of the US stock market. You'll master key cycles and trends, including the "January Barometer," the "Santa Claus Rally," the "Best Six Months," and the four-year "Presidential Election Cycle" as you learn to trade and invest with confidence.

You'll explore strategies for getting a handle on increased market volatility, identifying past periods of exceptional price movement in the market, as well as streaks of positive and negative performance likely to repeat themselves. You'll also find:

• Month-by-month strategies that deliver reliably outsized market returns based on cyclical trends
• Key explanations and descriptions of seasonal and annual cycles that consistently repeat themselves, year after year

• Strategies and techniques that promise--and deliver--a sizeable impact on your investing bottom-line

  For 57 years, the Almanac has offered savvy investors the freshest data and most insightful advice. Stock Trader's Almanac 2024 is the comprehensive roadmap to investing eagerly anticipated by day traders, long-term investors, and portfolio managers alike.

  Klappentext

  PRAISE FOR STOCK TRADER'S ALMANAC "Traders and investors alike look forward to getting their copy of the Stock Trader's Almanac each year. It's the perfect way to set our expectations for what's to come and to harvest the lessons of all that's come before."
  -Downtown Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and star of CNBC's The Halftime Report "Investors need to respect the seasonals and other historical factors that can influence stocks. The Stock Trader's Almanac is one of the best references for these factors and cycles."
  -Thomas J. Lee, CFA, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors "I do not use seasonality in my work yet I find myself reaching for the Stock Trader's Almanac often. It's more than seasonality: it's data, it's sentiment, it's a must-have if you're involved in markets."
  -Helene Meisler, Columnist for TheStreet and Real Money, 40-year market technician and equity trader "The Stock Trader's Almanac gives you a daily guide to 2024 ... a year in advance. I've been reading it since the first 1968 edition was published."
  -Larry Williams, Legendary stock, futures and commodities trader and author "Churchill told us, 'The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.' Fortunately, Jeff does this for us year in and year out. The Stock Trader's Almanac is an invaluable resource."
  -Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, Carson Group "The essential guide that deservedly sits on every professional trade desk on Wall Street. Active traders who have overlooked the Almanac are just asking for trouble."
  -Barry Ritholtz, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Ritholtz Wealth Management, and host of Bloomberg Radio's Masters in Business podcast "The Stock Trader's Almanac is a treasure trove of solid-gold investment nuggets. No serious trader should have it far from his hands."
  -John Mauldin, author of Bull's Eye Investing and Thoughts From the Frontline "A venerable guide for Wall Street's farmers to plant and harvest investments according to the season."
  -Jonathan Burton, Money and Investing Editor, MarketWatch "Whether I am researching seasonality trends or old Wall Street sayings, or am simply in need of some good old-fashioned investment horse sense, I start with the Stock Trader's Almanac. I have been a student of Yale and Jeffrey Hirsch's Almanac research for years, and look forward to future lessons."
  -Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist, CFRA Research "Information is key to successful investing, and investors will find the Almanac a chockablock source of need-to-know stuff."
  -Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media "Historical price patterns continue to work because human nature doesn't change, and neither does the law of supply and demand. Study past successful stocks if you want to know what future ones will look like. Stock Trader's Almanac is all about historical facts."
  -William J. O'Neil, late chairman and founder, Investor's Business Daily (1933-2023)

  Zusammenfassung
  The Most Trusted Almanac Used by Savvy Investors to Profit Year after Year! Created by Yale Hirsch in 1967, the Stock Trader's Almanac has delivered money-making insights and strategies to investors for more than six decades. The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the "January Barometer" and the "Santa Claus Rally" and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as "The Best Six Months Strategy" (commonly known as "Sell in May and Go Away") and the four-year Presidential Election Cycle. Mr. Hirsch imparted his knowledge of the stock market to his son, Jeffrey Hirsch. who joined the organization as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father in 1990 and became editor-in-chief some years later. Even since, Jeff has carried on his father's tradition of constantly improving the Stock Trader's Almanac and has been tireless in his efforts to explain how investors can use the Stock Trader's Almanac to beat the market. Jeff regularly appears on major news networks such as CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg; he is quoted extensively in major newspapers and financial publications; and he is in high demand as conference speaker. In short, he is the media's "go-to guy" on all things related to applying the lessons of history to today's stock market. The 2024 Stock Trader's Almanac, the 57th Annual Edition, continues its rich tradition of showing you the cycles, trends, and patterns you need to know in order to trade and/or invest with reduced risk and for maximum profit. Trusted by Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and many other respected market authorities, this indispensable guide has helped generations of investors. Order your copy to make smarter, more profitable investment decisions in 2024.

  Inhalt

  The 2024 Stock Trader's Almanac

  7 Introduction to the Fifty-Seventh Edition

  10 2024 Outlook

  12 2024 Strategy Calendar

  14 January Almanac

  16 January's First Five Days: An "Early Warning" System

  18 The Incredible January Barometer (Devised 1972): Only 12 Significant Errors in 73 Years

  20 Bulls Win When Market Hits The January Trifecta

  22 February Almanac

  24 Down Januarys: A Remarkable Record

  26 2024 Presidential Election Year Perspectives

  28 Market Charts of Presidential Election Years

  30 March Almanac

  32 How the Government Manipulates the Economy to Stay in Power

  34 Incumbent Party Wins & Losses

  36 The December Low Indicator: A Useful Prognosticating Tool

  38 How to Trade Best Months Switching Strategies

  40 April Almanac

  42 Dow Jones Industrials One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1901

  44 S&P 500 One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1930

  46 NASDAQ, Russell 1000 & 2000 One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1971

  48 May Almanac

  50 Summer Market Volume Doldrums Drive Worst Six Months

  52 Top Performing Months: Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones Industrials

  54 "Best Six Months": Still an Eye-Popping Strategy

  56 MACD-Timing Triples "Best Six Months" Results

  58 June Almanac

  60 Top Performing NASDAQ Months

  62 Get More out of NASDAQ's "Best Eight Months" with MACD-Timing

  64 Triple Returns, Less Trades: Best 6 + 4-Year Cycle

  66 July Almanac

  68 First Month of Quarters Is the Most Bullish

  70 2022 Daily Dow Point Changes (Dow Jones Industrial Average)

  72 Don't Sell Stocks on Monday or Friday

  74 A Rally…