DOW is up 22% or 4,000 points since the November 2016 Election!

Gateway Pundit ^ | 9/19/17 | Jim Host

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The DOW is up 22% and 4,000 points since the election. No President has more all time closing highs in their first year in office than President Trump.

• President Trump is already the only President in US history to oversee two stock market rallies of nine days or more where the markets set new highs each and every day.
• On February 28th President Trump matched President Reagan’s 1987 record for most continuous closing high trading days when the DOW reached a new high for its 12th day in a row!
• Then in early August President Trump reigned over a 9 day stock market rally with each day reaching record highs.
• The DOW daily closing stock market average has risen 22% since the election on November 8th. (On November 9th the DOW closed at 18,332 – on September 18th the DOW closed at 22,331 – another all time closing high).
• Since the Inauguration on January 20th the DOW is up more than 12%. (It was at 19,827 at January 20th.)
• The DOW took just 66 days to climb from 19,000 to above 21,000, the fastest 2,000 point run ever. The DOW closed above 19,000 for the first time on November 22nd and closed above 21,000 on March 1st.
• The DOW closed above 20,000 on January 25th and the March 1st rally matched the fastest-ever 1,000 point increase in the DOW at 24 days.
• The DOW is now up by 4,000 points (3,999) since the election.

[JayAr36]

Where are all those con-servatives who declared Trump was a liberal just like Obama?

Still searching for the purist they need to fulfill their idealism.

[dragnet2]

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[Wuli]

I am just glad my pension fund is now a very globally diversified portfolio, and as the equities P/E has risen the balancing of it has put more into fixed instruments - very high quality corporate bonds, NOT in or related to financial companies. It is still primarily equities but the bond side has been growing. At least if the U.S. segment sees a major decline, we are hedged to avoid a total calamity - with more diversity and more bonds.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s similar to my positions: broad diversification in asset classes; diversification in vertical markets / industries; global vs domestic; emerging vs mature markets; equity vs fixed instruments. About 2/3 equities now.

[libstripper]

I’m just waiting for the 2018 Lincoln Navigators to be released. Then I’ll trade my 2010 and get one.

[Vermont Lt]

Just re-read that headline. That seems a little too far to fast for any index.

Everything reverts to the mean. Or at least the median.

[riverdawg]

“I’ve been an extremely poor market timer in earlier decades.”

Don’t be too hard on yourself. The vast majority of all market-timers are poorer because of it. And the problem with evaluating the performance of successful market-timers is that it’s difficult to distinguish between those who are skilled and those who are lucky.

“Now that I’m in my mid-sixties, heavily in equities, ...”

If you are nearing retirement, you might want to begin rebalancing your portfolio by gradually reducing your equity exposure.

[riverdawg]

“From personal experience, my efforts to time the market like you are suggesting have been total disasters. I would have been much better off riding the market waves as all the analysis shows.”

It’s a very difficult lesson for many people to understand and implement.

[Does so]

You GOT it!

:)