Stock Trader's Almanac: (Almanac Investor Series)

A time-tested guide to stock trading market cycles and seasonal trends 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 2014 contains essential historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and highlights seasonal trading opportunities and dangers. The STA is now bound with a lexitone cover and an attractive gold spiral with gold foil stamping. This new format is more user-friendly and lies flat when open, easier for making notes. It is also lighter and more portable. This version harkens back to the original STA format that Yale Hirsch pioneered over 40 years ago. The Stock Trader's Almanac 2014 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. 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.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS 10 2014 Strategy Calendar 12 January Almanac 14 January's First Five Days: An Early Warning System 16 The Incredible January Barometer (Devised 1972): Only Seven Significant Errors in 63 Years 18 January Barometer in Graphic Form Since 1950 20 February Almanac 22 John Person's Top Ten Market Timing & Stock Selection Tools 24 The Fourth Year of Decades 26 Market Charts of Midterm Election Years 28 March Almanac 30 Midterm Election Years: Where Bottom Pickers Find Paradise 32 Prosperity More than Peace Determines Outcome of Midterm Congressional Races 34 How to Trade Best Months Switching Strategies 36 New Millennium Seasonal & Sector Trades 38 April Almanac 40 The December Low Indicator: A Useful Prognosticating Tool 42 Down Januarys: A Remarkable Record 44 Top Performing Months Past 63 3 Years: Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones Industrials 46 May Almanac 48 "Best Six Months": Still an Eye-Popping Strategy 50 MACD-Timing Triples "Best Six Months" Results 52 Best Investment Book of the Year: Mastering the Stock Market 54 June Almanac 56 Top Performing NASDAQ Months Past 42 3 Years 58 Get More out of NASDAQ's "Best Eight Months" with MACD-Timing 60 Triple Returns, Fewer Trades: Best 6 + 4-Year Cycle 62 First Months of Quarters are the Most Bullish 64 July Almanac 66 2012 Daily Dow Point Changes 68 Don't Sell Stocks on Monday or Friday 70 A Rally for All Seasons 72 August Almanac 74 Why a 50% Gain in the Dow is Possible from its 2014 Low to its 2015 High 76 Aura of the Triple Witch--4th Quarter Most Bullish: Down Weeks Trigger More Weakness Week After 78 Take Advantage of Down Friday/Down Monday Warning 80 September Almanac 82 A Correction for All Seasons 84 First-Trading-Day-of-the-Month Phenomenon: Dow Gains More One Day than All Other Days 86 Market Behavior Three Days Before and Three Days After Holidays 88 Market Gains More on Super-8 Days Each Month than on All 13 Remaining Days Combined 90 October Almanac 92 Sector Seasonality: Selected Percentage Plays 94 Sector Index Seasonality Strategy Calendar 98 November Almanac 100 Midterm Election Time Unusually Bullish 102 Fourth Quarter Market Magic 104 Trading the Thanksgiving Market 106 Most of the So-Called "January Effect" Takes Place in the Last Half of December 108 December Almanac 110 January Effect Now Starts in Mid-December 112 Wall Street's Only Free Lunch Served Before Christmas 114 If Santa Claus Should Fail to Call, Bears May Come to Broad and Wall 116 Year's Top Investment Books 118 2015 Strategy Calendar DIRECTORY OF TRADING PATTERNS & DATABANK 121 Dow Jones Industrials Market Probability Calendar 2014 122 Recent Dow Jones Industrials Market Probability Calendar 2014 123 S&P 500 Market Probability Calendar 2014 124 Recent S&P 500 Market Probability Calendar 2014 125 NASDAQ Market Probability Calendar 2014 126 Recent NASDAQ Market Probability Calendar 2014 127 Russell 1000 Index Market Probability Calendar 2014 128 Russell 2000 Index Market Probability Calendar 2014 129 Decennial Cycle: A Market Phenomenon 130 Presidential Election/Stock Market Cycle: The 180-Year Saga Continues 131 Dow Jones Industrials Bull and Bear Markets Since 1900 132 Standard & Poor's 500 Bull and Bear Markets Since 1929/NASDAQ Composite Since 1971 133 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: January and February 134 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: March and April 135 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: May and June 136 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: July and August 137 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: September and October 138 Dow Jones Industrials 10-Year Daily Point Changes: November and December 139 A Typical Day in the Market 140 Through the Week on a Half-Hourly Basis 141 Tuesday Most Profitable Day of Week 142 NASDAQ Strongest Last 3 Days of Week 143 S&P Daily Performance Each Year Since 1952 144 NASDAQ Daily Performance Each Year Since 1971 145 Monthly Cash Inflows into S&P Stocks 146 Monthly Cash Inflows into NASDAQ Stocks 147 November, December, and January: Year's Best Three-Month Span 148 November Through June: NASDAQ's Eight-Month Run 149 Dow Jones Industrials Annual Highs, Lows, and Closes Since 1901 150 S&P 500 Annual Highs, Lows, and Closes Since 1930 151 NASDAQ, Russell 1000 and 2000 Annual Highs, Lows, and Closes Since 1971 152 Dow Jones Industrials Monthly Percent Changes Since 1950 153 Dow Jones Industrials Monthly Point Changes Since 1950 154 Dow Jones Industrials Monthly Closing Prices Since 1950 155 Standard & Poor's 500 Monthly Percent Changes Since 1950 156 Standard & Poor's 500 Monthly Closing Prices Since 1950 157 NASDAQ Composite Monthly Percent Changes Since 1971 158 NASDAQ Composite Monthly Closing Prices Since 1971 159 Russell 1000 Monthly Percent Changes and Closing Prices Since 1979 160 Russell 2000 Monthly Percent Changes and Closing Prices Since 1979 161 10 Best Days by Point and Percent 162 10 Worst Days by Point and Percent 163 10 Best Weeks by Point and Percent 164 10 Worst Weeks by Point and Percent 165 10 Best Months by Point and Percent 166 10 Worst Months by Point and Percent 167 10 Best Quarters by Point and Percent 168 10 Worst Quarters by Point and Percent 169 10 Best Years by Point and Percent 170 10 Worst Years by Point and Percent 171 Dow Jones Industrials One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1901 172 S&P 500 One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1930 173 NASDAQ, Russell 1000 & 2000 One-Year Seasonal Pattern Charts Since 1971 STRATEGY PLANNING AND RECORD SECTION 175 Portfolio at Start of 2014 176 Additional Purchases 178 Short-Term Transactions 180 Long-Term Transactions 182 Interest/Dividends Received during 2014/Brokerage Account Data 2014 183 Weekly Portfolio Price Record 2014 185 Weekly Indicator Data 2014 187 Monthly Indicator Data 2014 188 Portfolio at End of 2014 189 If You Don't Profit from Your Investment Mistakes, Someone Else Will; Performance Record of Recommendations 190 Individual Retirement Account: Most Awesome Mass Investment Incentive Ever Devised 191 G.M. Loeb's "Battle Plan" for Investment Survival 192 G.M. Loeb's Investment Survival Checklist