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MASSIVE S&P 500 GAINS HALLOWEEN TO CHRISTMAS
Here it is folks, the beginning of the best six months of the year to go long equities.
October has been considered, on average, the best time to go long stocks with the
reputation of having tremendous crashes, “acting as the bear market killer”.
October has a spooky history that has scared many strong-willed and financially sound
investors and traders with the likes of the fabled Friday the 13th crash in 1989, or the
earlier double whammy, back to back debacles in 1978 and 1979. Once again, as an avid
futures trader who was around and trading during the crash in 1987, John can testify that
October can be a scary month, yet a lucrative one for the well informed trader.
As is published in the Stock Traders Almanac,
October can be a time to buy depressed stocks.
This may be what helps in this situation, going
long the March futures contract on or about
October 27 and holding until December 27. Once
again, due to the length of the holding period, we
have featured this trade entering the next-month
futures contract as opposed to the front-month
December contract, which one would need to roll
into the March contract due to expiration.
The success rate is a whopping 75.0%,
registering a cumulative gain of $216,038 per one
lot futures contract. This is the Commodity Trader
Almanac’s highest dollar amount winner by far. In
fact, even during the worst of times ...