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 StagflationThe 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.
Dow Gains 9 Percent When Sitting President RunsOnly Two Losses Last Seven Months of Election Years; Incumbent Victories versus Incumbent Defeats; 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 ContentNavigating November; December Delivers; Wall Street 's Only Free Lunch; When Santa Fails to Call; January Jubilee; January 's First Five Days Early Warning System; The Incredible January Barometer; Best Three Months; Chapter Ten: Spring Harvest; February Findings; March Madness; April Action; Chapter Eleven: Summer Doldrums; May Matters; June Juju; July Jolt; Chapter Twelve: Celebrate Good Times; Santa Claus Comes to Town; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Negative Presidents' Day; The Luck of the Irish; A "Better" Good Friday; Memorial Day and the Stock Market.
Few Fireworks on Independence DayTrading the Labor Day Markets; Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur, Sell Passover; Trading the Thanksgiving Market; Chapter Thirteen: Don't Sell on Friday; Most Gains Occur on Monday and Tuesday; Monday, Most Favored S & P 500 Day; Bear Hurts Monday and Friday; NASDAQ Strong Like Bull; Traders Take Lunch, Too; Chapter Fourteen: Picking the Ripe Trade; A Chance for the Individual Trader; For Everything There Is a Season; It 's All about the Timing; Taking a Good, Hard Look at the Indicators; Have Sound Trading Discipline; Acknowledgments.
