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August spooks many stock investors but it’s actually one of the Dow’s best months
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Moreover, August is typically a positive month for U.S. stocks. In fact, August has been the best month for stocks over much of the U.S. market’s history.</p>\n<p>Consider the monthly average returns for the Dow Jones Industrial Average back to its creation in 1896. Over the 90 years until 1986, August was the best-performing month with an average gain of 1.8%, compared to 0.4% for the other months of the calendar.</p>\n<p>Yet since 1986 the reverse has been true, with August being the worst month — posting an average loss of 0.7%, versus an average gain of 0.9% for the other months.</p>\n<p>Investors who are wary of August’s terrible seasonal tendencies are focusing on this more recent history and ignoring the long-ago record.</p>\n<p>There’s nothing magical about 1986, by the way. I chose that as the year to divide the historical sample because that was the end date of an early academic analysis of the Dow’s seasonal tendencies. 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That study, by Josef Lakonishok of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Seymour Smidt of Cornell University, was entitled “Are Seasonal Anomalies Real? A Ninety-Year Perspective.” It appeared inThe Review of Financial Studiesin 1988 and reported that August was indeed the best month for U.S. stocks, on average.\nIt perhaps is not surprising that the market’s August’s fortunes turned south almost immediately after that study appeared. Stock market patterns often stop working once too many investors become aware of them.\nInvestors who bet on August because of that study didn’t read it very carefully, however. The authors wrote that, even though August came out on top in a ranking of average monthly returns up until then, “there is no consistent monthly pattern in the stock market.” Their conclusion is even truer today, of course.\nStill, it’s worth noting that, when focusing on all years since 1896, August remains an above-average month. 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