SP Elections years seasonal trend

Taking a casual look at the S&P behavior over the past 73 years, with 18 of those years being election years, here’s what we find: The index tends to show a significant drop during the summer months.

While we could certainly analyze further based on which party was in power or other variables, sometimes a simple graph tells an interesting story

Just out of sheer curiosity

performance of the last 18 election years (of the last 73 years)