That is a good question…but to be honest it is not something I do not concern myself with too much. I don’t believe that I can time the market. I focus on find a good stock with good fundamentals (especially a growing dividend) and invest in it no matter of what time of year it occurs is. I plan to hold my stocks for long periods of time and am not to concerned about short term movements in stock prices.

journalists need to write articles that sell. interesting snippets of info help sell magazines, not indepth boring research. 90% of all articles in the popular media are after the fact reports, not before the fact predictions.[& the ones that seem like predictions are usually just fantasy].

when the media reports the latest investment fad, 50% of the time its time to bail on it.