Don’t Let September’s Rally Trick You

You’ve probably heard the optimistic hype surrounding September’s stock market performance. The S&P 500 gained an impressive 8.8 percent during a month that has a bad reputation among stock market investors. Measuring stock market performance on a calendar basis is indeed common. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it makes a lot of sense. In fact, it’s totally arbitrary to look only at monthly performance figures … A balanced approach would look at rolling 4-week averages. Or in the case of this September, rolling 22-trading day intervals since there were actually 22 trading days. And if you chose this approach, the above cited 8.8… . . . → Full Story: Don’t Let September’s Rally Trick You