26 out of 26

Gary Alexander alerts me to a fascinating stat:

March started with another market scare, but we’ve seen the same kinds of corrections in January and February with recoveries by month’s end. In January and February of this year, the S&P 500 rose a net 5.5%, including 2.3% gains in January and 3.2% gains in February. Since 1938, the S&P 500 has risen in both January and February 26 times. Since 1938, the full-year has been positive ALL 26 times in which the S&P rose in both January and February. The average annual gain in those 26 years was +20.73%.

Historically, March is a good month and April is #1, so we could see another couple of rising months in our near future. Over the last 50 years, according to Bespoke Investment Group, the Dow has gained an average 1.09% in March. Over the last 100 years, the average March is slightly better, +1.12%. April is historically the best month of the year, so we can anticipate another spring forward in stocks by April 30.

Posted by on March 2nd, 2011 at 2:08 pm


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