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Stocks were down initially this week after some profit taking from the gains of the previous week. The buyers stepped back in on Wednesday and stocks were up before the FOMC policy statement was released. At first, investors were not happy with the Fed's statement of the possibility of rate hikes in December and the market dropped initially, but minutes later buying resumed and continued into Wednesday's close. The market leveled off Thursday but some of the Wednesday's gains were taken back Friday ...

For the investor October was an awesome month with an 8.30% gain

For the S&P 500 this was the 5^th best over the past 66 Octobers, and the 22^nd best over the past 789 months

This leads us to the key question many of us are asking, with such a strong October, what does this mean for November? Well, there are only 10 months of October which have closed 5% or greater and of those 10 occasions, 8 of 10 Novembers closed positive.

MONTHLY: Listed below is November’s ...

It was a relatively quiet day on Thursday as investors stepped aside after the big post-FOMC policy statement rally on Wednesday afternoon. The weaker than expected 1.5% Q3 GDP number that came out before the opening bell gave them reason to pause, although the the Dow and S&P did close well off the morning lows.

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Stocks were up nicely prior to the FOMC policy statement yesterday but quickly plummeted after the announcement. From there, the bulls jumped right back in and the Dow, which briefly turned negative, skyrocketed into the close with a 198-point gain.

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When ranking the best month(s) of the year, I calculate the individual rankings for each of the categories listed below, add them together, then rank the sums of each different month against each other. I do inverse the Average Negative Gains, so the smaller number ranks 1^st

Winning ratio (how many time the index closed up)
Average gains (the overall average gains of the month for every year counted)
Average Positive gains (only counts months which closed positive)
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