To most investors, the DJIA provides all of the information they think they need, and they worship it mindlessly, thinking that this time tattered average has mystical predictive and analytic powers far beyond the scope of any other market numbers. It’s Wall Street’s rendition of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
Does a Faulty Barometer Herald a Storm for Stocks?
The January Barometer simply states that As goes January, so goes the year, and its racked up a seemingly remarkable forecasting record since well before Yale Hirsch of Stock Traders Almanac first popularized it as early as 1972.