Pre-Election Cycle

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 Pre-Election Cycle

Since 1950, whenever the S&P500 has completed the Trifecta coming off a down year, the stock market has never been down. And it's up almost 27% on average, more than 3 times the average annual rate of return for the S&P500.

And this makes sense considering we just entered the Pre-Election year, historically the most bullish part of the 4-year cycle:

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Stocks have been following these seasonal trends as closely as I can remember.

Everything points to a difficult time but the main indexes will go up as in previous years.

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