Om nog even door te gaan op de (razend interessante) discussie over het effect van de Januari Barometer, bij deze nog enkele bronnen die het (welbekende) effect ervan bespreken:
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January Barometer Definition | Investopedia
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The January Barometer Demystified - Forbes
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https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/active-trader/january-barometer
Do you want to know how stocks might perform this year? A widely followed market theory is that with January having gotten off to a great start thus far—up 4.5% as of January 22—2013 could be another good year for equities.
Setting the pace
The January barometer is the hypothesis that stock market performance in January predicts its performance for the rest of the year. This is essentially a theory that forecasts if stocks rally in January, they will, in all likelihood, finish up for the year.
Jeffrey Todd, senior technical analyst with Fidelity, notes, “There is a very strong correlation between positive January S&P 500® performance and positive market performance for the entire year. In fact, the January barometer has held true 37 of the 39 times since 1950 when January experienced market gains.” Only during two years have stocks dropped sharply after a positive January (1966 and 2001), with both instances occurring at the end of powerful multi-year market advances.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...2/04/january-barometer-stocks-future/1865541/
Using January as a harbinger of what's to happen the rest of the year has been a solid indicator 88.7% of the time, according to Stock Trader's Almanac.
The so-called January barometer has only been wrong by a wide margin seven times since 1950, the Stock Trader's Almanac says. The most recent time the January barometer failed was in 2001. The market rose 3.5% in January 2001, but ended the year down 13%, hurt in part by the World Trade Center attacks.
Still, investors could have anticipated some of the best years for stocks following a good January for the market. The best year for stocks since 1950, which was 1954, delivered a solid 45% gain to investors. And investors watching the January barometer saw it coming, when stocks rose 5.1% in January 1954.
History is a guide not a prediction. But using the January barometer, investors are hopeful the 5.8% gain in January was a good sign for the rest of the year.
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January Barometer Signals Stocks May Have Room to Run | Fox Business
The stock market is full of adages and rules, but one carries a lot more weight than the rest: the January Barometer. More than many of its peers, the saying that “as goes January, so goes the year,” tends to come true, to the tune of 84% of the time since 1945, according to S&P Capital IQ. Moreover, stocks tend to generate a healthy 11% rally during the 11 months following a green January.
Given last month’s 756-point surge on the Dow Industrials, their best first month performance since 1994, the January Barometer could lead Wall Street well beyond all-time highs in 2013. Savvy investors may also be able to use the early returns to position themselves to capitalize on this phenomenon.
“I have found no other month that works so well as a year-ahead indicator,” Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at McGraw-Hill’s (MHP) S&P Capital IQ, wrote in a note on Monday. “Even though past performance is no guarantee of future results, I think this old saying will continue to offer sound indications in the year ahead, since it mirrors investor optimism.”
Of course, for the January Barometer to continue its strong track record, stock prices will have to overcome concerns about slow U.S. growth and looming battles over Washington’s spending and tax policies.
If the old adage holds true again this year, the S&P 500 would be poised to tack on 11.2% from last Thursday’s close, leaving the broad index at 1665.89. That’s an impressive 6.4% beyond the S&P 500’s all-time record high of 1565.15 that was set in October 2007.