Best Six Months Strategy

We're dedicated to arming traders and investors with the information and insights to make more profitable trades and investments. Here, you can learn how the stock market's historically proven cyclical and seasonal tendencies can be applied to today's markets to make you a more successful investor. This web site is a natural outgrowth of the Stock... Trader's Almanac book. Created by Yale Hirsch in 1967, the Stock Trader's Almanac has delivered money-making insights and strategies to investors for more than six decades. The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the "January Barometer" and the "Santa Claus Rally" and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as "The Best Six Months Strategy" (commonly known as "Sell in May and Go Away") and the four-year Presidential Election Cycle. To provide more timely advice and historical data and research tools, we created The Almanac Investor digital subscription service and stocktradersalmanac.com. With alerts delivered twice a week, we show investors how to implement in real-time the strategies that have made The Stock Trader's Almanac a must-have for active investors for nearly 50 years. On the web site, you'll find a rich trove of important market information and research tools. You can investigate the data underlying the January Barometer, one of the most accurate tools for forecasting the market ever devised. Or you can see year-to-year how The Best Six Months Strategy has generated extraordinary returns from 1950 to today. All of our strategies are backed by extensive historical information. You can implement our strategies exactly as we do through our Almanac Investor service or you can study the underlying research and fine-tune the strategies in your own way or even devise your own strategies. The original impetus behind the Stock Trader's Almanac was Yale Hirsch's lifelong interest in stock market history, cycles, and patterns and his passion to create a practical working tool for the average investor. He succeeded ...Read More