Stock Trader's Almanac 2012

Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Yale Hirsch

John Wiley & Sons, Nov 1, 2011 - Business & Economics - 198 pages

A time-tested guide to stock trading market cycles

Published every year since 1968, the Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool with a wealth of information organized in calendar format. Everyone from well-known money managers to savvy traders and investors relies upon this annual resource for its in-depth analyses and insights. The Stock Trader's Almanac 2012 contains essential historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and highlights seasonal trading opportunities and dangers.

The Stock Trader's Almanac 2012 is packed with timely insights and targeted analysis to help you navigate turbulent markets and beat the odds in the year ahead. This trusted guide combines over a century's worth of data, statistics, and trends along with vital analysis you won't get anywhere else. The 2012 edition includes a revision of the Seasonal Switching Strategy that significantly boosts returns as well as new information on the coming Super Boom. Other key seasonal and cyclical updates include pre-presidential election year cycles and perspectives, how the government manipulates the economy to stay in power, incumbent victories vs. incumbent defeats, and the market impact of the lame duck year.

• Alerts you to little-known market patterns and tendencies to help forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence
• An indispensable annual resource, trusted for over 40 years by traders and investors
• The data in the Almanac is some of the best in the business

For its wealth of information and the authority of its sources, the Stock Trader's Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing.

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Contents

• A Correction for All Seasons: 82
• Dow Gains More One Day than All Other Days: 84
• Market Behavior Three Days before and Three Days after Holidays: 86
• Market Gains More on Super8 Days Each Month Than on All 13 Remaining Days Combined: 88
• OctoberAlmanac: 90
• Selected Percentage Plays: 92
• Sector Index Seasonality Strategy Calendar: 94
• NovemberAlmanac: 98
• Fourth Quarter Market Magic: 100
• Trading the Thanksgiving Market: 102
• Most of the SoCalled January Effect Takes Place in the Last Half of December: 104
• DecemberAlmanac: 106
• January Effect Now Starts in MidDecember: 108
• Wall Streets Only Free Lunch Served before Christmas: 110
• If Santa Claus Should Fail to Call Bears May Come to Broad and Wall: 112
• George Lindsay and the A r1 of Technical A nalysis Years Top Investment Books: 114
• Strategy Calendar: 119
• ale DIRECTORY OF TRADING PATTERNS AND DATABANK is I 121 Dow Jones Industrials Market Probability Calendar 2012: 121
• Recent Dow Jones Industrials Market Probability Calendar 2012: 122
• SP 500 Market Probability Calendar 2012: 124
• NASDAQ Market Probability Calendar 2012: 127
• Russell 2000 Index Market Probability Calendar 2012: 128
• A Market Phenomenon: 129
• The 178Year Saga Continues: 130
• Dow Jones Industrials Bull and Bear Markets Since 1900: 131
• Standard Poors 500 Bull and Bear Markets Since 1929: 132
• January and February: 133
• March and April: 134
• May and June: 135
• July and August: 136
• September and October: 137
• November and December: 138
• A Typical Day in the Market: 139
• Through the Week on a HalfHourly Basis: 140
• Wednesday Most Profitable Day of Week: 141
• NASDAQ Strongest Last 3 Days of Week: 142
• SP Daily Performance Each Year Since 1952: 143
• NASDAQ Daily Performance Each Year Since 1971: 144
• Monthly Cash Inflows into SP Stocks: 145
• Monthly Cash Inflows into NASDAQ Stocks: 146
• Years Best ThreeMonth Span: 147
• Standard Poors 500 Annual Highs Lows and Closes Since 1930: 153
• Dow Jones Industrials Monthly Closing Prices Since 1950: 154
• Standard Poors 500 Monthly Percent Changes Since 1950: 155
• Standard Poors 500 Monthly Closing Prices Since 1950: 156
• NASDAQ Composite Monthly Percent Changes Since 1971: 157
• 15s NASDAQ Composite Monthly Closing Prices Since 1971: 161
• Worst Days by Percent and Point: 162
• Weeks by Percent and Point: 163
• Worst Weeks by Percent and Point: 164
• Months by Percent and Point: 165
• Worst Months by Percent and Point: 166
• E Quarters by Percent and Point: 167
• Worst Quarters by Percent and Point: 168
• Mews by Percent and Point: 169
• Worst Years by Percent and Point 120: 170
• Portfolio at Start of 2012: 172
• Additional Purchases: 184

About the author

Jeffrey A. Hirsch (South Nyack, NY) is president of Hirsch Organization and has worked with Yale Hirsch for over 15 years.  In 2001 he took over as president and editor. He appears frequently on CNBC, Fox Biz, Yahoo! Tech Ticker, and Bloomberg to talk about market cycles and seasonal trends.  He also edits the monthly Almanac Investor eNewsletter, a digital subscription-based toolkit for active traders and investors.

The Hirsch Organization (South Nyack, NY) was founded by Yale Hirsch (Nyack, NY) who first published The Stock Trader's Almanac, which provides historical information to investors, in 1967.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stock Trader's Almanac 2012; Volume 86 of Almanac Investor Series
• Authors: Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Yale Hirsch
• Edition: 8
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118168712, 9781118168714
• Length: 198 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Finance