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Friday, January 11, 2002

A good summary of one of the January Effects: History Shows First 5 Days Can Put Bulls on Right Path Mind you, these sorts of adages bear further study. While they may "work", a sensible way to play it would be, like any trade, to use a stop loss. While the original observation by Yale Hirsch was for the Dow Jones Industrials, that these indices trade in tandem allows a liberal such as I to overlay it on the Nasdaq. Here is last year's chart, which also incorporates part two of the January effect, namely, "As goes January so goes the year".

Year 2001 January Effect

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moon phases
 

At last, over the rim
of the waiting earth
the moon lifted with
slow majesty
till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off,
free of moorings
- Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows

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