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Monday, February 27th, 2012Interesting article from Allan Roth: Taking Stock: Don’t be the “Dumb Money”
A Complete Streak History of the S&P
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012This is Part 2 of my last post. What follows is a complete streak history of the S&P going all the way back to 1926. What you will see is the month or months in the streak, the length of the streak and the total return during the streak. It’s pretty self-explanatory. The graphic after [...]
S&P Positive and Negative Streaks 1926 – 2011 (Part 1)
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Through January 2012, there are 1,033 months of total returns for the S&P (January 1926 – January 2012). Here’s a look at how those months break down as far as streaks go. You’ll notice that there are a lot more one-month negative streaks than positive streaks. Looking at the data, I noticed that during longer [...]
A Color-Coded Look at the S&P Index 1926-2011
Friday, February 3rd, 2012This is my version of the “map of the market”… The graphic should be pretty self-explanatory. The bottom line is that positive and negative months are random. Good luck trying to find a pattern.
A Historical Look at the S&P 500 Total Return by the Month
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Many of you know that I have a spreadsheet with the monthly total returns for the S&P going back to 1926. I thought I would share with you a summary of that data. It’s pretty interesting (at least I think it is). The best month, based on geometric average total return is December. The worst [...]
Total Returns for 2011 and January 2012
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012I just realized that I hadn’t done a full year update on indexes I follow here at AFM. If you’re interested, those numbers can be found here:S&P 500, MidCap 400, SmallCap 600, & 1500 Performance (2011). Now, here are the numbers for January 2012 (click on the graphic for a larger version): January’s 4.48% return [...]
Interesting Tidbits from the 2012 Barron’s Roundtable (Part 1)
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Note: This post has been sitting in my drafts for over a week. I’m a little behind on my reading but I’ll try to follow-up with any interesting findings from Part 2 of the roundtable. I don’t read the annual Barron’s Roundtable for stock tips. Rather, I read it to get a sense of the [...]
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