A Lower Midterm Stock Market Is A Sure Bet - But your bet?

[citygator]

S&P 500 has struggled from May to October during almost all midterm election years. Any guesses this year?

1962: -21.49%
1966: -21.22%
1970: -0.1%
1974: -32.5%
1978: -8.64%
1982: +17%
1986: -7.62%
1990: -18.7%
1994: -1.86%
1998: -18.33%
2002: -30.54%
2006: -4.73%
2010: -6.08%
2014: -5.37%
2018: -5.06%
2022: -19%

2026: ? ?

 

[Frankeneinstein]

S&P 500 has struggled from May to October during almost all midterm election years. Any guesses this year?

1962: -21.49%
1966: -21.22%
1970: -0.1%
1974: -32.5%
1978: -8.64%
1982: +17%
1986: -7.62%
1990: -18.7%
1994: -1.86%
1998: -18.33%
2002: -30.54%
2006: -4.73%
2010: -6.08%
2014: -5.37%
2018: -5.06%
2022: -19%

2026: ? ?

Tell us why you think this post applies to me walter...quote anything that relates it to me...your real life [as it were] is colliding headlong with your fantasy life

 

[Thinker101]

Better ask Nancy.

 

[MarathonMike]

S&P 500 has struggled from May to October during almost all midterm election years. Any guesses this year?

1962: -21.49%
1966: -21.22%
1970: -0.1%
1974: -32.5%
1978: -8.64%
1982: +17%
1986: -7.62%
1990: -18.7%
1994: -1.86%
1998: -18.33%
2002: -30.54%
2006: -4.73%
2010: -6.08%
2014: -5.37%
2018: -5.06%
2022: -19%

2026: ? ?

Interesting.