The financial markets are set to wrap up the month with roughly a 3.5% gain, depending on where today’s action ends, which is historically on the positive end of returns for the month. The histogram below shows the annual percentage change for the month of August. Since 1930, there have been a total of 47 positive months versus 38 negative (55% win ratio) with an average return of 1.47%. However, if we strip out the 37.7% gain in 1932, the one outlier, the average monthly return falls to just 1.04%.
This post was published at StreetTalkLive on 29 August 2014.
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