The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles: How to Take Advantage of Time-Proven Market Patterns

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One: Cutting through the Bull

Describing the Markets

Talking in Seculars

Let’s Shoot Some Bull

Seeing What Tomorrow Brings

Chapter Two: War and Peace

Creatures of Habit

War: What Is It Good For?

To Boldly Go Where the Dow Has Never Gone

Chapter Three: A Century of Booms and Busts

As the Century Turns

World War I

The Roaring Twenties

And Then Depression Set In

World War II

The Consumer Boom

The Vietnam War Heats Up Inflation

That 1970s Stagflation

The Information Revolution

The Greatest Boom

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Chapter Four: The Coming Boom

Dot-com Bust versus 1929 Crash

The Global War on Terror

Bubblicious Housing

Four Horsemen of the Economy

The Colt of the Economy

We’re Not There Yet

Five Years to Go

Chapter Five: Your Portfolio Gets Political

How the Government Manipulates the Economy to Stay in Power

Post-Election-Year Syndrome: Paying the Piper

Midterm Election Years: Where Bottom Pickers Find Paradise

Preelection Years: No Dow Losers Since 1939

Election Year Perspectives and Observations

Chapter Six: Open Season for Stocks

The “Best Six Months” Trading Strategy

Times They Are a Changing

Fourth-Quarter Market Magic

Two Market Phenomena in Perfect Harmony

Seasonally Well Adjusted

Chapter Seven: Aura of the Witch

Financial Incantations

Seasons of the Witch

Manic Monday and Freaky Friday

Witches’ Brew

Chapter Eight: Autumn Planting

August Annals

September Scenarios

October Occasions

Sowing the Seeds of Gains

Chapter Nine: Winter of Content ...