What January can tell us about the market rally

Many investors believe that 'how January goes, so goes the year'. But is it true? And can the market's performance so far this year tell us anything about the future of the current rally?

It is widely believed that how January goes, so goes the year; however, such a simplistic process cannot be relied upon.

The market historian John K Harris has researched deeper, and come up with some valuable insights that were recently reported in Barron's. What he did was to filter the data, and concentrate on those Januarys that followed the high of the previous year falling in December.

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