Stock Trader's Almanac 2024

57th edition of the gold standard in US stock market trend, patterns, and cycles

In Stock Trader's Almanac 2024, veteran trader and market strategist Jeffrey Hirsch delivers the latest edition of the most trusted source used by traders around the world to make sense of the complexities of the US stock market. You'll master key cycles and trends, including the "January Barometer," the "Santa Claus Rally," the "Best Six Months," and the four-year "Presidential Election Cycle" as you learn to trade and invest with confidence.

You'll explore strategies for getting a handle on increased market volatility, identifying past periods of exceptional price movement in the market, as well as streaks of positive and negative performance likely to repeat themselves. You'll also find:

• Month-by-month strategies that deliver reliably outsized market returns based on cyclical trends
• Key explanations and descriptions of seasonal and annual cycles that consistently repeat themselves, year after year
• Strategies and techniques that promise-and deliver-a sizeable impact on your investing bottom-line

For 57 years, the Almanac has offered savvy investors the freshest data and most insightful advice. Stock Trader's Almanac 2024 is the comprehensive roadmap to investing eagerly anticipated by day traders, long-term investors, and portfolio managers alike.

PRAISE FOR STOCK TRADER’S ALMANAC

“Traders and investors alike look forward to getting their copy of the Stock Trader’s Almanac each year. It’s the perfect way to set our expectations for what’s to come and to harvest the lessons of all that’s come before.”
—Downtown Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and star of CNBC’s The Halftime Report

“Investors need to respect the seasonals and other historical factors that can influence stocks. The Stock Trader’s Almanac is one of the best references for these factors and cycles.”
—Thomas J. Lee, CFA, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors

“I do not use seasonality in my work yet I find myself reaching for the Stock Trader’s Almanac often. It’s more than seasonality: it’s data, it’s sentiment, it’s a must-have if you’re involved in markets.”
—Helene Meisler, Columnist for TheStreet and Real Money, 40-year market technician and equity trader

“The Stock Trader’s Almanac gives you a daily guide to 2024 … a year in advance. I’ve been reading it since the first 1968 edition was published.”
—Larry Williams, Legendary stock, futures and commodities trader and author

“Churchill told us, ‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.’ Fortunately, Jeff does this for us year in and year out. The Stock Trader’s Almanac is an invaluable resource.”
—Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, Carson Group

“The essential guide that deservedly sits on every professional trade desk on Wall Street. Active traders who have overlooked the Almanac are just asking for trouble.”
—Barry Ritholtz, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Ritholtz Wealth Management, and host of Bloomberg Radio’s Masters in Business podcast

“The Stock Trader’s Almanac is a treasure trove of solid-gold investment nuggets. No serious trader should have it far from his hands.”
—John Mauldin, author of Bull’s Eye Investing and Thoughts From the Frontline

“A venerable guide for Wall Street’s farmers to plant and harvest investments according to the season.”
—Jonathan Burton, Money and Investing Editor, MarketWatch

“Whether I am researching seasonality trends or old Wall Street sayings, or am simply in need of some good old-fashioned investment horse sense, I start with the Stock Trader’s Almanac. I have been a student of Yale and Jeffrey Hirsch’s Almanac research for years, and look forward to future lessons.”
—Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist, CFRA Research

“Information is key to successful investing, and investors will find the Almanac a chockablock source of need-to-know stuff.”
—Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media

“Historical price patterns continue to work because human nature doesn’t change, and neither does the law of supply and demand. Study past successful stocks if you want to know what future ones will look like. Stock Trader’s Almanac is all about historical facts.”
—William J. O’Neil, late chairman and founder, Investor’s Business Daily (1933-2023)